Avi Muchnick

Avi Muchnick (born 1979) is an artist, author, programmer and entrepreneur.

Avi Muchnick
Born1979 (age 41–42)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEntrepreneur
Years active2002–Present
Known forWorth1000
Aviary
Websitewww.avimuchnick.com

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 4 children.[11]

References
  1. Colao, JJ (2 March 2012). "Aviary is Quietly Cornering A Billion-Dollar Market". Forbes. Forbes. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  2. Levy, Francesca (9 March 2013). "What Happened to the Former Darlings of SXSW? Market". LinkedIn. LinkedIn. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  3. "Aviary Crunchbase profile". Techcrunch. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Isaac, Mike (17 December 2012). "Photo-Editing Software Firm Aviary Names New CEO". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  8. Adobe acquires Aviary to boost Creative Cloud app development, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2014
  9. Cass, Stephen (1 October 2010). "2010 Winners: Avi Muchnick, 31, Cloud-based multimedia editing software". MIT. Technology Review. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  10. Arenson, Karen (11 December 1999). "METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; College Paper Postpones Issue, Citing a Warning". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  11. "AviMuchnick.com: About Me". Tumblr. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
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