Courtesy of Caterina Fake
Curiosity Expert: Caterina Fake
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Hunch and Flickr
Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur.
She is the co-founder of Hunch, a site that is building the "taste graph" for the internet, mapping every person on the internet to every entity, and their affinity for that entity. It launched in June 2009.
Fake co-founded Flickr, the popular photo-sharing service which ushered in the so-called Web 2.0 integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the best, or more interesting content. Flickr was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.
At Yahoo! she ran the Technology Development group, known for its Hack Yahoo! program, a stimulus to innovation and creativity, and Brickhouse, a rapid development environment for new products.
Prior to Flickr, she was Art Director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the development of online communities, social software and personal publishing.
Caterina is a Founder Partner at Founder Collective, and sits on the boards of Etsy and Creative Commons. She advises many startups and new businesses.
She has won many awards, including BusinessWeek's "Best Leaders", "The 2010 Most Influential Women in Technology," and received an Honorary Doctorate from RISD in 2009. She was named to the "Time 100", Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people, and appeared on the cover of Newsweek the same year.
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