Facts: - caption: karp in 2009 - birth date: 6 july 1986 - name: david karp - nationality: american - image: david karp ebe09 -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg - birth place: new york city , new york , us - occupation: ceo of tumblr Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of david karp .
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david karp -lrb- born july 6 , 1986 -rrb- is an american web developer and entrepreneur .he is the founder and ceo of the short-form blogging platform tumblr .according to '' forbes '' , karp 's net worth exceeds $ 200 million , and tumblr has been valued at $ 800 million .on may 20 , 2013 , it was announced that yahoo! and tumblr had reached an agreement for yahoo! to acquire tumblr for $ 1.1 billion .karp would remain as ceo of the company .karp began his career as an intern under fred seibert at the animation company frederator studios , where he built the studio 's first blogging platform and conceived , wrote , and edited their first internet video network , channel frederator .karp went on to work for online parenting forum urbanbaby until it was sold to cnet in 2006 .karp then started his own software consulting company , davidville , where he worked with computer engineer marco arment on projects for clients .during a gap between contracts in 2006 , the two began work on a microblogging website , which was launched as tumblr in february 2007 .as of september 1 , 2015 , tumblr hosts over 252 million blogs .in august 2009 , karp was named best young tech entrepreneur 2009 by '' businessweek '' and in 2010 , he was named to the '' mit technology review '' tr35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35 .