Christopher Poole
Christopher Poole
Christopher Poole is an American entrepreneur. He is best known for founding two web sites, 4chan and Canvas. He started 4chan pseudonymously, under the screen name moot. In 2016 he began working for Google...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth22 December 1988
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
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The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.
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As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.
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For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.
brush failures people
There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.
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For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.
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A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.'