Caterina Fake
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Caterina Fake, an American entrepreneur and businesswoman, is an American.
In 2004, and Hunch in 2011, she co-founded Flickr and Hunch.
Fake has served as a trustee for a number of charities and as the chairwoman of Etsy.
Fake was recognized within Silicon Valley for her efforts as an angel investor in Time magazine's Time 100, and she has been lauded for her role in designing Flickr.
Early life and education
Fake was raised in northern New Jersey by her American father and her Filipina mother. She was not allowed to watch television as an infant, and her interests included reading poetry and playing classical music.
She graduated from Smith College in 1989 and Vassar College in 1991 with a degree in English. The students could log into Vassar College's intranet from their dorm rooms, which Fake acknowledges as being largely responsible for her eventual web design. She was delayed in San Francisco while visiting her sister after working various roles, including as a painter's assistant, an investment banker, and at a dive shop (which Fake called her "post-college what-dote period." Fake learned about the internet and began creating websites and CD-ROMs.
Personal life
Stewart Butterfield, her Flickr co-founder, was married to Fake from 2001 to 2007. In 2007, the couple had one daughter together. Fake and Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engeström are currently in a relationship, and the two children have three children together, as of 2015.
Career
She began working in 1997 as a Netscape community forum manager. This work, as well as others in blogging and online communities, led her to co-found Ludicorp in Vancouver, along with Stewart Butterfield and Jason Classon in summer 2002. Game Neverending, the company's most popular online role-playing game, was released. The game didn't come out, but Fake and Butterfield introduced Flickr in 2004, making it one of the world's most popular photosharing portals.Flickr was acquired by Yahoo!
Around US$30 million in 2005, there were about 30 million dollars in 2005. It became part of the "Web 2.0" websites, with features like social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that displayed the most common content. Fake started working at Yahoo, where she managed the Technology Development group, which was responsible for the Yahoo Hacker community, and Brickhouse, which was a fast-growing market place for new products after the acquisition. She resigned from Yahoo on June 13, 2008.Fake began as the art director of Salon, a news and opinion website that launched in 1995. She co-founded Hunch.com in 2007, alongside entrepreneur Chris Dixon, which was bought by eBay for $80 million in November 2011. Findery, Fake's most recent project as of 2014, is located in the city of Fake's most recent development. Pinwheel was first launched in February 2012 in a limited beta, and it was previously called Pinwheel. In July 2012, the unit was renamed to Findery. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.
Fake joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in August 2008 and the Sundance Institute board of trustees in 2015. She resigned from Etsy's board of directors after eight years, citing other professional and personal priorities. At the time of her resignation, she was chairwoman.
Fake has received various accolades, including Bloomberg Businessweek's "Best Leaders" in 2005, Forbes' 2005 eGang, Fast Company's Fast 50, and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35. She was included on Time 100's list of the world's 100 most influential people under the heading "Builders and Titans" with her Flickr co-founder Mark Cohen. In 2009 and 2013, she received honorary doctorates from The Rhode Island School of Design and The New School. Fake was a winner of the 2018 "Visionary Award" from the Silicon Valley Forum, which honors Silicon Valley companies' leaders. She was praised for her contributions to Silicon Valley as an author and angel investor.
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