41 Quotes by David Karp

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

I never spent much time with people my own age.

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.

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.

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.

I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

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.

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.

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