David Karp

David Karp impresses me most for what he refused to do: he never collected a high school diploma, yet built Tumblr and reshaped how a generation expressed itself online. Coming out of the demanding Bronx High School of Science only to back his own hands over credentials takes real nerve, and his teenage internship building blogging tools showed where his instincts truly lay. I see him as a maker rather than a manager, someone who proved that creation can outrank a résumé. In a culture obsessed with pedigree, Karp is a useful reminder that there is more than one path to building something the world actually uses.

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Name (English)

David Karp

Name (Japanese)

デイヴィッド・カープ

Reading

でいゔぃっど・かーぷ

Born

July 6, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / businessperson / programmer / computer scientist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

High school

Bronx High School of Science

• Official sitehttps://www.davidslog.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/davidkarp/
• Xhttps://x.com/davidkarp
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Karp
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432639

Tags

• New York
• entrepreneur
• businessperson
• programmer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.