The creator of Tumblr and Instapaper for money, simplicity, and around the world

Marco Arment - fairly well-known person in startap- and IT-coterie. He was the first designer in the company TumblrAnd still working in it created the first program of "pent-read" for iOS called Instapaper. He later resigned from Tumblr to focus entirely on this his project. In 2012, he founded the magazine for the iOS Newsstand called The Magazine. In the spring of 2013, he consistently got rid of all of their assets: Tumblr was bought by Yahoo! and Marco, as one of the first employees got the opportunity to realize their option; He sold the company Instapaper BetaworksBecause they do not feel the strength to further develop the project alone; The Magazine is also sold, this time its editor in chief. He is now working on yet unannounced project for iOS.

Marco leads a popular blog and participates in the podcast ATP. He has repeatedly expressed quite interesting thoughts that I will share with the audience Lifehacker'a.

According to various estimates, Marco, one of the first employees Tumblr, will receive after the sale of the blogging platform of Yahoo, from 5 to 8 million. The Magazine amount of the sale were not disclosed, and Instapaper, but we can assume that we are talking about a minimum of tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, respectively. So this spring, Marco became quite wealthy person. However, he does not believe that it will bring into his life significant changes.

The reason is that a person with commonsense thinking, not too much and it is necessary, according to Marco. Suppose, he can afford to buy another (expensive) car and house on the ocean. but you need a car will pass MOT and the house must be constantly looked after. He can do it yourself, or hire special people who will do it for him - but communication with them, too, will take time and effort.

In general, Marco - minimalist, and does not consider it necessary to own a lot of property. In one interview he said that he used to be two cars, but one he sold - it was just he does not need. We can say that "this all just zazhralis America," and you might think about whether we really need so all of those things about which we dream.

Instapaper was the first program category read-it-later. Now these functions take on many applications, ranging from Pocket and ending with a plug Clearly to Evernote. I'm sure many of the readers are LH something similar.

And then, at the end of 2007, Marco was faced with a problem - he did not have time to read all the articles it seemed interesting, and at the same time while traveling in the subway, he could do it, but he did not have capabilities. Rather than suffer the imperfection of the world, Marco took - and fix it. He solved his problem, the problem of many other people, and incidentally made a little "candle factory."

This advice is in one form or another was given a lot of great people from Confucius and ending with Steve Jobs. On the example of Marco and his magazine The Magazine, you can see an example of how a person evolves to its work.

When Marco was creating The Magazine, he is, among other things, to solve interesting challenges as a developer involved in programming - the fact that he has always loved. But at some point, the programming task becomes less and in the end almost gone - most of the time needed to spend on editorial work. Marco realized that this was not what he wants to do in the future - and sold their offspring, instead of wasting time on something that brings pleasure.

I think Marco Armenta ineteresno one of the representatives of modern start-up scene. If you are fond of information technology, be sure to subscribe to his blog and podcast with his participation.