Some Internet wunderkinds don't bother to finish college. Tumblr founder David Karp dropped out of school and now performs one of publishing platforms faster growth on the Web. In our final segment of founding stories of the week (also see parts I, II and III), Karp answers some questions Chris Dixon quick in the video above. He talks about his best business decision ever (disconnect from Tumblr profitable, niche, Web development company), because he has trouble sleeping, and how hiring younger, brightest engineers will make "Recruitment biggest advantage of Tumblr."
On this last point, says Karp when Tumblr begins to "Google-scale" and Google still only is recruitment of doctors, "I want to grab the 16 years of age will be brilliant and help them get there." What about engineers with at least a college degree? Karp anti-education that not as much as he is not seeing colleges churn out talent he needs. "The biggest problem is college isn't doing very good engineers and that is what this industry needs," he says.
We learned that the greatest heroes of Karp are "Steve Jobs and Willy Wonka. Jobs makes perfect sense. Karp grew up being "obsessed with lectures of Steve Jobs" and the art of "proving". But Willy Wonka? "It's kind of like Steve
No comments:
Post a Comment