it is official. tumbler is becoming part of yahoo!. now what. yahoo! bought the website for $1.1 billion this week but it may be worth even more. marissa mayer promised users the company won t screw this up. users are skeptical. laurie siegel sat down with david carp this week and it is so interesting this kid didn t even go didn t even finish high school and now he is negotiating with marissa mayer, probably one of the most famous female tech executives for his company. what was her role in all of this? marissa mayer has for some reason this charge in the tech industry. you see, all of these young entrepreneurs going to yahoo! now and yahoo! wasn t able to get a lot of the younger start-ups to get involved. it wasn t cool to be acquired by yahoo!. i will say this. david carp really defines cool. he is a new york-based
yahoo making another move in its effort to stay hip with the high profile and high priced purchase of tumbler. the $1.1 billion sale left many hearing the news asking what is tumbler. in case you don t know the site is a mix between social media and blogging. it allows you to create and post everything from text messages and photos as well as reblog material. one of the most interesting things about tumbler might be david carp, the 26-year-old high school dropout who started it all. laurie siegel had a chance to sit down and carp. tell me what he was like and what surprised you most?
bler, they are worried about yahoo s acquisition may make it uncool. item bler is a blog tumbler is a blog site. yahoo is doing its best to reinvent itself after being left in the dust by google. in that quest, it s agreed to buy tumbler for $1.1 billion. it will give them access to the younger user base. translation, carol, ad dollars. ad dollars. i just find this young man s story fascinating. so he s a teenager when he creates tumbler. he is living with his parents as normal teenagers do. tell us more about him. reporter: yeah, his name is david carp. as you said, he dropped out of high school. this isn t your typical high school dropouts. he left one of the best high schools to be home schooled. he began learning webcote code
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the florida lottery office has been open all day. they re waiting for someone to cash-in that winning $590 million powerball ticket. only one ticket matched all the numbers saturday to win the record jackpot. it was sold in a publix grocery store in the tampa, florida, area the at the peak of sales this weekend, by the way states like texas and california were reportedly selling more than $1 million worth of tickets every hour. there s a billion-dollar payday also in the works for a 26-year-old high school dropout. david carp of new york city didn t win the powerball lottery. he sold his blogging website called tumblr for $1.1 billion to yahoo. he created the site six years ago in the back room of his mom s new york city apartment. carp is going to stay on at ceo and run the company as a separate entity within yahoo. it doesn t bring many much money, but the big appeal here