Caterina Fake is the co-founder of Flickr; a popular photo sharing platform. In September 2010, Flickr was reported to host more than 5 billion images on its platform and continues to grow. Flickr has an official iPhone app and also supports Windows Phone 7. Fake sold Flickr to Yahoo in 2005 and went on to co-found Hunch in 2009, a site that will map every user on the internet to every entity and their affinity for that entity.
Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall before she attended Smith College and Vassar College, where she graduated in 1991.
Prior to Flickr, Fake served as Art Director at Salon.com and was heavily involved in the development of online communities and personal publishing. Fake also ran the Technology Development group at Yahoo; which ran programs such as Hack Yahoo and Brickhouse.
Fake has won various awards, including Red Herring’s 20 Entrepreneurs under 35, Business Week’s Best Leaders of 2005 and Forbes 2005 eGang. She was also named by Time Magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Fake is also a partner at Founder Collective where she serves as an advisor to new start-ups and businesses.
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