David Karp said that he will leave by the end of this year and chief operating officer Jeff D’Onofrio will take his place at the helm of Tumblr. Photo: AFPSan Francisco: Tumblr founder and chief David Karp on Monday announced he is leaving the nearly 11-year-old blogging platform—with his departure coming in the wake of Verizon buying parent-company Yahoo. Karp said that he will leave by the end of this year and chief operating officer Jeff D’Onofrio will take his place at the helm of Tumblr. Karp founded Tumblr in New York in early 2007 as a platform where people could share writing and short-form media. “We made it really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it.

Source: Mint November 28, 2017 10:30 UTC