Caterina Fake co-founded the websites Flickr in 2004 and Hunch in 2007.
12 Facts About Caterina Fake
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Caterina Fake was raised in northern New Jersey by her American father and her Filipina mother.
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Caterina Fake graduated from the prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall in 1986 and Vassar College in 1991 with a degree in English, after transferring from Smith College in 1989.
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Caterina Fake taught herself about the Internet and began creating websites and CD-ROMs.
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Caterina Fake developed a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Game Neverending.
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Caterina Fake previously worked as the art director for Salon, a news and opinion website started in 1995.
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Caterina Fake joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in August 2008, and the Sundance Institute board of trustees in 2015.
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Caterina Fake was chairwoman at the time of her resignation.
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Caterina Fake has won various awards, including Bloomberg Businessweek's "Best Leaders" in 2005, Forbes's 2005 eGang, Fast Company's Fast 50, and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35.
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Caterina Fake received honorary doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009 and from The New School in 2013.
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Caterina Fake was a recipient of the 2018 "Visionary Award" from the Silicon Valley Forum, which recognizes leaders in Silicon Valley businesses.
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Caterina Fake was married to Stewart Butterfield, her Flickr co-founder, from 2001 to 2007.