Apr 30, 2018

Tumblr founder David Karp joins political advocacy group

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David Karp. Source: Future Now

Tumblr founder and former CEO David Karp has become a board advisor to Future Now, a left-leaning political advocacy group focused on midterm elections in state legislatures.

Future Now co-founder Adam Pritzker tells Axios:

"Our big challenges are how do you tell a compelling story around this agenda and how do you get that story upstream. That's the sort of thing that David understands better than anyone... He's really at the office a lot, helping us with ideas and even technical development for projects we're considering. Much more involved than I expected, and it's great for us."

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  1. Global: Total confirmed cases as of 7 p.m. ET: 33,238,168 — Total deaths: 999,667 — Total recoveries: 22,980,342 — Map.
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