David Karp, the 26-year-old who has just sold his fantastically popular blogging site Tumblr to Yahoo! for a $1.1billion cash deal, made the announcement today and signed off with a resounding 'F*** yeah'.
Karp, a high school drop-out who started the site from his mother's New York apartment in 2007, posted a message on Tumblr's staff blog on Monday.
He told users that he was 'elated' to be joining Yahoo! and echoed the words of the company's CEO Marissa Mayer by saying: 'We won’t let you down.'
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F*** yeah! David Karp, who founded Tumblr in 2007 in his mother's Manhattan apartment, just sold the site to Yahoo for $1.1billion Success story: David Karp dropped out of high school but founded Tumblr, a wildly popular micro-blogging site which has turned him into a multimillionaire