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David Karp

1986 - Today

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David Karp (born July 6, 1986) is an American webmaster, entrepreneur, and blogger, best known as the founder and former CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr. Karp began his career, without having received 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 936,030 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. David Karp is the 212th most popular computer scientist (down from 195th in 2019), the 16,137th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,959th in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 27.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, David Karp ranks 212 out of 201. Before him are Danny Hillis, Larry Ewing, Katie Bouman, John Resig, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Maria Klawe. After him are Gottfrid Svartholm, Manindra Agrawal, Blake Ross, Arfa Karim, and Virgil Griffith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, David Karp ranks 836. Before him are George Hill, Kenza Farah, Mouhamadou Dabo, Waleed Abdullah, Sally Pearson, and Viktor Fayzulin. After him are Natasha Thomas, Shin A-lam, Chen Jin, Luis Montes, Jaclyn Linetsky, and Elsad Zverotić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Karp ranks 16,137 out of 18,182. Before him are Joey Dorsey (1983), CoCo Vandeweghe (1991), Spencer Bachus (1947), Amerie (1980), Gary Clark Jr. (1984), and Nick Hysong (1971). After him are Jessica Collins (1971), Connor Franta (1992), Shelby Rogers (1992), Joe Mauer (1983), Clay Aiken (1978), and Laura Jane Grace (1980).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, David Karp ranks 111. Before him are Brian Acton (1972), Nancy Lynch (1948), Bram Cohen (1975), Danny Hillis (1956), Katie Bouman (1989), and John Resig (1984). After him are Blake Ross (1985) and Virgil Griffith (1983).

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