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Eric Nakagawa is the co-founder of the humor site I Can Has Cheezburger?.
Prior to co-founding I Can Has Cheezburger? Nakagawa worked as a software developer in Honolulu, Hawaii. "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." Nakagawa and Unebasami sold I Can Has Cheezburger? to Ben Huh in July 2007. ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-based image macros and lolspeak into mainstream usage.
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.
Nakagawa is a public speaker on the subject of web development. He spoke at
Education and career
Prior to co-founding I Can Has Cheezburger? Nakagawa worked as a software developer in Honolulu, Hawaii. "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." Nakagawa and Unebasami sold I Can Has Cheezburger? to Ben Huh in July 2007. ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-based image macros and lolspeak into mainstream usage.
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.
Nakagawa is a public speaker on the subject of web development. He spoke at SXSW
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has conti ...
in March 2008 about the LolCats success, and was featured in the Google Authors Series.
In 2012 he co-founded the travel website SimpleHoney. It was acquired by Ripple in April 2013.
As of June 2019, Nakagawa was head of open-source for Facebook
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's cryptocurrency project Libra.
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