COMPUTER SCIENTIST

David Karp

1986 - Today

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David Karp (born July 6, 1986) is an American entrepreneur and blogger, best known as the founder and former CEO of the microblogging platform Tumblr. Karp began his career, without receiving a high school diploma, 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 the online parenting forum UrbanBaby until it was sold to CNET in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Karp has received more than 968,844 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. David Karp is the 237th most popular computer scientist (down from 212th in 2019), the 17,752nd most popular biography from United States (down from 16,094th in 2019) and the 121st most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 29.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, David Karp ranks 237 out of 245. Before him are Jon Lech Johansen, Theodore Ts'o, David Heinemeier Hansson, Katie Bouman, Larry Ewing, and Denny Vrandečić. After him are John Resig, Dries Buytaert, Rosalind Picard, Manindra Agrawal, Virgil Griffith, and Ian Goodfellow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, David Karp ranks 912. Before him are Lou Williams, Labinot Harbuzi, Omar Mateen, Anton Belov, Luc Mbah a Moute, and Mirna Jukić. After him are Azzedine Doukha, Rok Benkovič, Steven Taylor, Almen Abdi, Barbara Meier, and Michael Stevens.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Karp ranks 17,752 out of 20,380. Before him are Brad Walker (1981), Rider Strong (1979), Omar Mateen (1986), Mick Wingert (1974), Steve Pearce (1947), and Quinn Cummings (1967). After him are Kendra Harrison (1992), Shane Battier (1978), Kimberly Po (1971), Evelyn Stevens (1983), Derrick Williams (1991), and Joe Walsh (1961).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, David Karp ranks 121. Before him are Bram Cohen (1975), Steve Wilhite (1948), Shawn Fanning (1980), Danny Hillis (1956), Theodore Ts'o (1968), and Katie Bouman (1989). After him are John Resig (1984), Rosalind Picard (1962), Virgil Griffith (1983), Ian Goodfellow (1987), Jamie Zawinski (1968), and Blake Ross (1985).

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