மேலும் இது மிகச் சிறந்த ப்ளாக்கிங் தளமாக உள்ளது.
டேவிட் கார்ப் இந்த தளத்தை ஆரம்பிக்கும் போது கூட இவ்வளவு விலைக்கு போகும் என எதிர்பார்திருக்கமாட்டார்.
அந்த வகையில் இவருக்கு யோகம் தான்.
David Karp didn’t finish high school. That didn’t stop
him from working his way into the 1 percent.
On Monday, when Yahoo announced
it would acquire Karp’s Tumblr, rumors swirled across the Web that the
26-year-old entrepreneur had become a billionaire, joining the likes of Facebook cofounders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz as the youngest members of the 10-figure
fortune club. The Tumblr founder, however, is not a billionaire. But he is
still very wealthy.
FORBES estimates that Karp, after taxes, will be about a
fifth of the way to the $1 billion threshold with Yahoo’s $1.1 billion deal for
Tumblr.
Prior to negotiations, the Tumblr CEO held about a 25%
stake in the New York City-based blogging platform he created. With Yahoo’s
acquisition of Tumblr, which is being done almost all in cash, Karp will
receive about $250 million in cash and a small amount
of Yahoo stock. Shares of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based internet company
closed at $27.00 on Tuesday, up 1.58%.
Neither Karp nor a Tumblr spokesperson could be reached
for comment.
Nearly a third of Karp’s windfall will go to federal and
New York state coffers following the close of his company’s deal with Yahoo. As
a New York City resident, Karp will face taxes of almost 33% since his payday–cash and
stock included–will be treated as capital gains. If Yahoo’s acquisition of
Tumblr is officially completed in the next few months as expected, Karp will
likely pay just under $90 million in taxes by April 15, 2014 to the federal
government and New York state government combined.
After taxes, Karp will be worth about $190 million, a sum
that that should keep the Tumblr founder content given his minimalist
lifestyle. His 1,700-square-foot, $1.6 million Williamsburg, Brooklyn loft
is sparsely furnished and he has been known to travel to places like Japan with
only a carry-on in tow.
“I don’t have any books. I don’t have many clothes,” Karp
told my colleague Jeff Bercovici for a FORBES cover story in January. “I’m
always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.”
Compared to other members of the young and wealthy tech
elite, Karp is far behind the likes of billionaire Facebook cofounders
Zuckerberg and Moskovitz in terms of net worth. Based on Facebook’s closing
share price on Tuesday of $25.66, Zuckerberg is worth $12 billion. The world’s youngest billionaire, Moskovitz, who
celebrated his 29th birthday on Wednesday, has a net worth of $3.5 billion.
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