Avi Muchnick
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| image = Avi Muchnick, 2011.jpg
| alt = Avi Muchnick, 2011
| caption = Avi Muchnick
(At the 2011 Luminance Conference)
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1979}}
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| citizenship = American
| alma_mater = Queens College
| occupation = Entrepreneur
| years_active = 2002–Present
| website = {{URL|http://www.avimuchnick.com}}
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Avi Muchnick (born 1979) is an artist, author, programmer and entrepreneur. Muchnick attended Queens College, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper.
In 2002, while attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Muchnick co-founded the popular creative contest site Worth1000, together with Israel Derdik.
In 2007, he co-founded Aviary, a company that built an award-winning multimedia application suite of creative web apps, with Israel Derdik and Michael Galpert. In September 2011, citing stalling growth of the multimedia application suite, he shifted Aviary's business strategy to powering the photo-editing in third-party apps on web and mobile smart phones. Seeing enormous immediate growth, he chose to focus the company exclusively around this new direction and closed down Aviary's consumer-facing multimedia application suite, one year later on September 15, 2012. As of March 2013, Aviary announced passing 35 million monthly active users, 3,500 partners and 3 billion photos edited across its partner network. On September 22, 2014, Aviary was acquired by Adobe Systems.
Muchnick was named one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT's Technology Review magazine in 2010.
References
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{{cite web|last=Colao|first=JJ|title=Aviary is Quietly Cornering A Billion-Dollar Market|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/03/02/aviary-is-quietly-cornering-a-billion-dollar-market/|work=Forbes|access-date=April 11, 2013|date=March 2, 2012}}
{{cite web|last=Levy|first=Francesca|title=What Happened to the Former Darlings of SXSW? Market|url=http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130309160624-28723569-what-happened-to-the-former-darlings-of-sxsw|work=LinkedIn|access-date=April 11, 2013|date=March 9, 2013}}
{{cite web|last=Carr|first=Austin|title=After Prescient Pivot, Aviary Tools Now Seeing 10 Million Photos A Month|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/1808995/after-prescient-pivot-aviary-tools-now-seeing-10-million-photos-month|work=Fast Company|access-date=April 11, 2013|date=January 17, 2012}}
{{cite web|last=Olanoff|first=Drew|title=Aviary's Platform Has Been Used To Edit Over 3B Photos, And That Doesn't Even Include Twitter|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/05/aviarys-platform-has-now-been-used-to-edit-over-3b-photos-and-that-doesnt-even-include-twitter/|work=TechCrunch|access-date=April 11, 2013|date=March 5, 2013}}
{{cite web|last=Cass|first=Stephen|title=2010 Winners: Avi Muchnick, 31, Cloud-based multimedia editing software|url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=956|work=MIT Technology Review|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|access-date=April 11, 2013|date=October 1, 2010}}
{{cite web|last=Arenson|first=Karen|title=METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; College Paper Postpones Issue, Citing a Warning|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/11/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-new-york-college-paper-postpones-issue-citing-a-warning.html?ref=allenlsessoms|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 11, 2013|date=December 11, 1999}}
{{cite news |last1=Stynes |first1=Tess |title=Adobe Acquires Aviary to Boost Creative Cloud App Development |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/adobe-acquires-aviary-to-boost-creative-cloud-app-development-1411418701 |access-date=December 3, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=September 22, 2014 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240803-082803/https://www.wsj.com/articles/adobe-acquires-aviary-to-boost-creative-cloud-app-development-1411418701 |archive-date=August 3, 2024}}
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External links
- [http://avimuchnick.com/ Avi Muchnick's Personal Blog]
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