Avi Muchnick
Avi Muchnick | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2002–Present |
| Known for | Worth1000 Aviary |
| Website | www |
Avi Muchnick (born 1979) is an artist, author, programmer and entrepreneur.
In 2002, while attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Muchnick co-founded the popular creative contest site Worth1000,[1] together with Israel Derdik.
In 2007, he co-founded Aviary, a company that built an award-winning[2] multimedia application suite of creative web apps, with Israel Derdik and Michael Galpert. As CEO, he raised $22 million in venture capital from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, venture capital firm Spark Capital, and other notable investors.[3] In September 2011, citing stalling growth of the multimedia application suite, he shifted Aviary's business strategy to powering the photo-editing in third-party apps on web and mobile smart phones. Seeing enormous immediate growth, he chose to focus the company exclusively around this new direction[4] and closed down Aviary's consumer-facing multimedia application suite, one year later on September 15, 2012.[5] As of March 2013, Aviary announced passing 35 million monthly active users, 3,500 partners and 3 billion photos edited across its partner network.[6] Muchnick served as CEO until December 2012, when he brought on former Walmart executive Tobias Peggs to take over, at which point he stepped into the Chief Product Officer role.[7] On September 22, 2014, Aviary was acquired by Adobe Systems.[8]
Muchnick was named one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT's Technology Review magazine in 2010.[9]
Personal life
Prior to attending law school, Muchnick attended Queens College, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper,[10] and Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy. Muchnick lives on Long Island with his wife and 3 children.[11]
References
- ^ Colao, JJ (2 March 2012). "Aviary is Quietly Cornering A Billion-Dollar Market". Forbes. Forbes. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ Levy, Francesca (9 March 2013). "What Happened to the Former Darlings of SXSW? Market". LinkedIn. LinkedIn. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ "Aviary Crunchbase profile". Techcrunch. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ Carr, Austin (17 January 2012). "After Prescient Pivot, Aviary Tools Now Seeing 10 Million Photos A Month". Fast Company. Fast Company. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ Muchnick, Avi (15 September 2012). "The Advanced Suite is Officially Offline". Aviary. Aviary. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Olanoff, Drew (5 March 2013). "Aviary's Platform Has Been Used To Edit Over 3B Photos, And That Doesn't Even Include Twitter". Techcrunch. Techcrunch. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ Isaac, Mike (17 December 2012). "Photo-Editing Software Firm Aviary Names New CEO". Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ Adobe acquires Aviary to boost Creative Cloud app development, Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2014
- ^ Cass, Stephen (1 October 2010). "2010 Winners: Avi Muchnick, 31, Cloud-based multimedia editing software". MIT. Technology Review. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ Arenson, Karen (11 December 1999). "METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; College Paper Postpones Issue, Citing a Warning". New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ^ "AviMuchnick.com: About Me". Tumblr. Retrieved 11 April 2013.