Meet David Karp, man who dropped out of high school, launched Tumblr at 20, sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, know about his career and journey

David Karp is the former CEO of Tumblr. He later sold the microblogging platform to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Karp was born on July 6, 1986, and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His mother, Barbara Ackerman, worked as a science teacher and his father, Michael D Karp, worked as a film and TV composer. Notably, his parents separated when he was just 17. He also has a younger brother named Kevin.

Karp went to the Calhoun School from pre-school through eighth grade. There, his mother taught science. In 1997, he started learning HTML and later went on to build websites for businesses.