From Bedroom Coder to Digital Pioneer David Karp’s story doesn’t begin in a Silicon Valley garage—it begins in a Manhattan bedroom with a teenage boy who fell in love with code. Born on July 6, 1986, in New York City, Karp was raised on the Upper West Side by an educator mother and a composer father. He taught himself HTML by age 11 and began building websites for clients while most kids were still navigating middle school. At 15, he made the bold decision to drop out of high school, opting for homeschooling to pursue internships in the tech world. … Continue reading David Karp : The High School Dropout Who Built a Billion-Dollar Platform and Changed the Internet Forever