David Karp quotes
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“Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
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“Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.”
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“There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.”
-- David KarpSource : "David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream". Interview With Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2012.
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“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.”
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“Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.”
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“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem.”
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“I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”
-- David KarpSource : "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr". Interview with Liz Welch, www.inc.com. June 2011.
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“Our team isn’t changing. … And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.”
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“Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.”
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“Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.”
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“You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.”
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“We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.”
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“I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.”
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“I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”
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“Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.”
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“We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.”
-- David KarpSource : "So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr?". Interview with Sammy Davis, www.mediabistro.com. October 15, 2015.
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“We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.”
-- David KarpSource : "So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr?". Interview with Sammy Davis, www.mediabistro.com. October 15, 2015.
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“The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.”
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“Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.”
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“Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.”
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“Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves”
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“I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.”
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“People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.”
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“I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.”
-- David KarpSource : "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr" by Liz Welch, www.inc.com.
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