Tumblr Founder and High School Dropout Now Worth $200 Million Tells Kids Not To Drop Out

Tumblr founder David Karp dropped out of traditional high school after his freshman year and was home-schooled for three years.

Now, he's worth more than $200 million.

But in an interview with Forbes' Jeff Bercovici, he says he that he doesn't recommend kids today drop out of high school.

"There's a lot that I feel like I missed out on," Karp tells Bercovici. "Just a whole lot of normal, social, childhood kind of stuff that I definitely missed out on."

Karp says that he dropped out because he knew exactly what he wanted to do: work with computers and do web development.

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SOURCE: Business Insider
Megan Rose Dickey

Tumblr Founder and High School Dropout Now Worth $200 Million Tells Kids Not To Drop Out

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