Christopher Poole | |
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Born | 1987 or 1988 (age 36–37) |
Other names | moot |
Education | Virginia Commonwealth University (no degree) |
Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, former Google employee |
Known for | Founder and former head administrator of 4chan |
Christopher Poole (born 1987 or 1988), also known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur and developer. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager; he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015.[2] He also founded the online community Canvas, active from 2011 to 2014. Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to work on the Google+ social network[3] and as a product manager. He left the company in 2021.[4]
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