Caterina Fake

Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur.

Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attended Choate Rosemary Hall, Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991. Fake is half-Filipino. After working variously at an investment bank, as a painter's assistant, on a crew shooting interstitials for Seinfeld and in a dive shop in Arkansas, she moved to San Francisco in 1994, where she started working in the nascent Web industry. In 2001 she moved to Vancouver, BC.

Fake is best known as the co-founder, with her husband Stewart Butterfield, of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Flickr 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. Prior to founding Ludicorp she was Art Director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the development of online community, social software and personal publishing. She joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in August of 2008. [cite web|url=http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8953|title=Flickr Cofounder Caterina Fake Joins Creative Commons Board|last=Steuer|first=Eric|date=2008-08-25|publisher=Creative Commons|accessdate=2008-09-08]

Fake has won many awards, including BusinessWeek's Best Leaders of 2005, Forbes 2005 eGang, Fast Company's Fast 50, and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. She sits on the board of Etsy, and advises many startups and new businesses. 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. Fake resigned from Yahoo on 2008-06-13. [ [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/flickr-co-founders-join-mass-exodus-from-yahoo/ Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo] ]

Fake lives in San Francisco, California.

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* [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015774/site/newsweek/ The New Wisdom of the Web] (Newsweek)
* [http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070209_179924.htm Yahoo Taps Its Inner Startup] (Business Week)
* [http://www.caterina.net/ Caterina.net] (weblog)
* [http://www.peekyou.com/USA/California/San_Francisco/Caterina_Fake/431 Caterina Fake Web Links]