Awards & Recognition
★Time 100 Most Influential People (2006)
★Bloomberg Businessweek Best Leaders (2005)
★Forbes 2005 eGang
★Fast Company Fast 50
★Red Herring 20 Entrepreneurs under 35
★Silicon Valley Forum Visionary Award (2018)
★Top 25 Women Investors by Business Insider (multiple years)
★Angel Investor Hall of Fame inductee
★Honorary doctorates from RISD (2009) and The New School (2013)
Notable Facts
→Co-founder of Flickr (sold to Yahoo for ~$30M in 2005)
→Co-founder of Hunch (sold to eBay for $80M in 2011)
→Former Chairman of Etsy board (2006-2014)
→General Partner at Yes VC venture capital fund
→Host of popular podcasts 'Should This Exist?' and 'Ingenious' with over 4M downloads
→Board member of Sundance Institute, McSweeneys, Creative Commons
→Pioneered many social media conventions like tagging and following
→Named one of the most influential people in Web 2.0 development