Did anyone else feel like the description of people's appearance was judgmental? Maybe I'm reading too much into it.<p>Edit: After a second reading, I think I've cracked it. The author is describing Karp as currently immature, but gradually developing into CEO material. So the descriptions separate each aspect of his appearance and personality into "immature", "developing", or "CEO-like".
It's interesting that the author noted that moot is not CEO material when he has 4chan. In ten years, moot will still have 4chan and tumblr will be a memory.
<p><pre><code> When asked a question that bores him, his eyes go
unreactive, and there’s a nearly audible shutdown noise as
he disengages. Among the topics that bore him are cars (“I
don’t like cars anymore”); Internet comments (“Gross”); his
company’s colossally expensive infrastructure (“I have a
very rudimentary understanding of how Tumblr actually works
these days”); and management (“I’m not super-passionate
about how we run the company”).
</code></pre>
So what does he... do? Count his money all day?
Hilarious quote of Marco Arment from 4 years ago:<p><i>When a similar idea circulated back in 2009, Tumblr’s then–lead developer, Marco Arment, summed up the party line in a scornful blog post: “I hope they let me work on some of the many exciting projects at Yahoo … I want to move to California and get stuck in traffic every day on the way to my midlevel engineering job where I sit in a cubicle all day and can’t make any product decisions while working on something nobody will ever see to manage regional ad clickthrough stats tracking.” Thanks, but no thanks.</i>
I can't read another piece on Karp. The guy is addicted to magazine/newspaper profiles of himself. Nary have I read an article on Tumblr that didn't focus mainly on Karp. I'm pretty sure if Ali G were still doing his thing, he could easily dupe Karp into taking an interview--he's just that desperate to be on camera.