Angelo Sotira
{{Short description|American entrepreneur}}
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| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|2|14}}
| birth_place = Greece
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| occupation = Entrepreneur
| known_for = Co-founding DeviantArt
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| website = {{URL|http://spyed.deviantart.com}}
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Angelo Sotira (born February 14, 1981) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the online community DeviantArt on August 7, 2000, with Matthew Stephens and Scott Jarkoff.
Career
Angelo co-founded DeviantArt at nineteen,{{cite web|url=http://spyed.deviantart.com/journal/35742286/|title=ceo life|author=Angelo Sotira}} but it was not his first company. Four years earlier, he started a music file-sharing site called Dimension Music. He sold it to Michael Ovitz in 1999, coming off of his stints at Disney and the Creative Artists Agency. Angelo worked the next two years at Ovitz's Artist Management Group & Lynx Technology Group (Ovitz's Internet investment arm) where he advised on how those companies could best strategically integrate the opportunities from emerging commercial applications of the Internet.{{cite web|title=The Deviant Experience|date=January 25, 2011 |url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217859|publisher=Entrepreneur}}{{cite web|url=http://news.deviantart.com/article/125134/|title=TMD: 10 X 10|access-date=February 1, 2011|archive-date=September 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928081503/http://news.deviantart.com/article/125134/|url-status=dead}}
As of 2017, Sotira is a member of the Wix management after Wix acquired DeviantArt for $36 million.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/website-builder-wix-acquires-art-community-deviantart-for-36m/|title=Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M|last=Lunden|first=Ingrid|date=February 23, 2017|website=TechCrunch|access-date=February 23, 2017|quote=As part of this acquisition, Angelo Sotira, co-founder and CEO of DeviantArt, will join the Wix management team, along with the rest of DeviantArt's employees.}}
Personal life
Sotira was born in Greece on February 14, 1981.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_22/b3683148.htm |title=RESUME: Angelo Sotira |accessdate=2011-12-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128150941/http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_22/b3683148.htm |archivedate=November 28, 2011 }} Currently, he is living in Hollywood, California.{{cite web|url=http://spyed.deviantart.com/|title=spyed on DeviantArt|publisher=|accessdate=January 30, 2017}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite web|url=http://www.gnextinc.com/capitalist/articles/internetmoguls.html|title=Teen Internet Moguls|access-date=February 1, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20041107064610/http://www.gnextinc.com/capitalist/articles/internetmoguls.html|archive-date=November 7, 2004|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/22/stop-being-weak-an-interview-with-angelo-sotira-ceo-of-deviantart-com-tctv/|title=Stop being weak. An Interview with Angelo Sotira, CEO of deviantART.com (TCTV)|publisher=TechCrunch|author=Cyan Banister|date=2010-08-22}}
External links
- [http://spyed.deviantart.com/ Angelo Sotira] on DeviantArt
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Category:American computer businesspeople
Category:Greek emigrants to the United States