May 1st, 2013

David Karp: Ten Out Of Ten Of The Biggest Hollywood Studios Now Advertise On Tumblr

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Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Tumblr founder David Karp and Sequoia partner (and Tumblr investor) Roelof Botha took the stage to talk to TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington about how the blogging platform’s plans to take over the world. After a conversation about the merits of building a startup in New York City versus Silicon Valley, the talk turned to how Tumblr plans to monetize their… → Read More

May 1st, 2013

Tumblr’s David Karp On The Pros Of NYC As A Startup Town: At Least Not Everyone’s Wearing “A F*cking Dropbox Or Airbnb Shirt”

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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 NY today, Tumblr founder David Karp and Sequoia partner Roelof Botha took the stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to discuss Tumblr’s history, the relationship between Karp as an entrepreneur and Botha as his investor and why New York is such a great city for a startup. The discussion really only got heated once Arrington started asking about New York… → Read More

November 19th, 2010

What's New At Tumblr: Funding, Hires, Office, Board Member, And A Focus On Fashion

For the past several weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about a large new round of funding that the social startup Tumblr was raising. That culminated today with a report in Fortune with numbers on the round. We had been hearing very similar numbers — around $25 million on a $100 million pre-money evaluation — but it turns out those numbers were likely low, we had heard from sources close to… → Read More