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Flickr


Photo sharing website

Former game designers Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake created Flickr, an online photo sharing network, in 2004. Flickr, which began as a photo-sharing feature of their gaming project, has since then blossomed into one of the premiere...

Founded in 2004
Employees: 36
Homepage:
Blog: http://blog.flickr.com/en

HQ

94089 701 1st ave.

Sunnyvale
USA CA
Updated on Dec 13, 2012
Flickr at CrunchBase
Past
Stewart Butterfield Founder
Caterina Fake Founder
Sara Wood Director of Product Management
Paul Hammond Head of Enginering
John Allspaw Head of Operations
Manny Ventura Program Director
Eric Costello Client Development Lead
Michael Deerkoski Head of Engineering
Kakul Srivastava General Manager
Cal Henderson Head of Engineering
Matthew Rothenberg Head of Product
Neil Kandalgaonkar Software Engineer
Seth Fitzsimmons Hackr
Maya Baratz Product Manager

March, 2005

Flickr was acquired by Yahoo!

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June, 2004

Flickr raised unknown amount in unattributed round from Reid Hoffman and James Currier

2004

Flickr was founded in 2004