Yahoo buys Tumblr: the founder of a billion dollars - diregiovani

ROME – The list of young millionaires in Silicon Valley continues to grow. After the success of Nick D’Aloisio become a millionaire thanks to its Summly app, now is the time of David Karp. The young 26 year-old is the founder of Tumblr, platform just bought by Yahoo! for $ 1.1 billion.

A goal not bad for the boy, who was only 15 he decided to leave school to continue their studies by home and devote himself to his true passion: the computer. It ‘just in his room that Karp in 2007, only 20 years old, he founded Tumblr.

To date, the platform has as many as 134 million members worldwide and most of them are under 25 years old. Tumblr How does it work? Simple. Part of the system is the dashboard. Here each user can visualize the flow of posts published on the blog below and republish them on social network. The creation of the post is facilitated by different modules that initiate a procedure differs depending on whether you want to publish a text, an image or a movie.

Despite the acquisition by Yahoo, Karp will remain CEO of the its platform and the working group that led to success, will remain unchanged. What will change? Karp and Associates will have the most technological means provided by Yahoo!.

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