Eric Nakagawa

Eric Nakagawa is the co-founder of the humor site I Can Has Cheezburger?.[1]

Education and career

Prior to co-founding I Can Has Cheezburger? Nakagawa worked as a Software Developer in Honolulu, Hawaii.[2] "In early 2007, after a bad day at work, Eric Nakagawa asked his friend (and future co-founder) Kari Unebasami to send him a photo of something cute to make him feel better. She sent over a few cat images, superimposed with phonetically spelled phrases, or LOLspeak, and the two knew they’d found their calling." [3] Nakagawa and Unebasami sold I Can Has Cheezburger? to Ben Huh in July 2007.[4] ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-based image macros and lolspeak into mainstream usage.[5]

Nakagawa is a New York Times bestselling author with his book "I Can Has Cheezburger?" appearing on the New York Times Best Sellers list in January 2009.[6]

Nakagawa is a public speaker on the subject of web development. He spoke at SXSW in March 2008 [7] about the LolCats success, and was featured in the Google Authors Series.[8]

In 2012 he co-founded the travel website SimpleHoney.[9] It was acquired by Ripple in April 2013.[10]

As of June 2019, Nakagawa was head of open-source for Facebook's cryptocurrency project Libra.[11]

Personal life

Nakagawa currently resides in San Francisco.[12]

References
  1. Tozzi, John (2007-07-13). "Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  2. "Icanhascheezburger". Mahalo.com. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  3. Wortham, Jenna (2008-04-25). "Behind the Memes: Kickin' It With the I Can Has Cheezburger? Kids | Underwire". Wired.com. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  4. "Simple Honey Travel Startup Team in Town". http://www.hawaiiweblog.com. August 31, 2011. External link in |publisher= (help)
  5. "The cuteness surge". http://thephoenix.com. February 1, 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. External link in |publisher= (help)
  6. "Best Sellers - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  7. Wallace, Lewis (2008-03-11). "SXSW: 2008, the Year the Audience Keynoted | Underwire". Wired.com. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  8. AtGoogleTalks (2008-09-26). "Authors@Google: Eric Nakagawa & Kari Unebasami". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  9. "Cheezburger Creator Launches SimpleHoney To Find Hotels You'll Love". TechCrunch. 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  10. "simplehoney acquired by Ripple". Crunchbase. 2013-04-03.
  11. Rodriguez, Salvador (June 6, 2019). "Here are the executives leading Facebook's cryptocurrency project, which is reportedly coming this month". CNBC. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  12. "LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn.
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