David Karp Quotes
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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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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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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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Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.
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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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I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
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People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.
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Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.
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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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I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
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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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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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I always carry my camera with me.
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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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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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I never spent much time with people my own age.
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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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We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.
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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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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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Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.
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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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We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
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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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We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.
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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 always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.
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