David Karp Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

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#3. We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

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#4. Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.

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#5. We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

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#6. Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

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#7. 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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#8. I always carry my camera with me.

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#9. 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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#10. I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.

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#11. 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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#12. 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.

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#13. We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

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#14. 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.

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#15. I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

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#16. 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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#17. People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.

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#18. I never spent much time with people my own age.

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#19. The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

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#20. 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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#21. I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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