CEO of Pet Holdings, Inc.
Greater Seattle Area
CEO of Pet Holdings, Inc.
Greater Seattle Area
tl;dr Does lolcats, memes, fail blog. Internet Content Connoisseur.
Ben is the CEO of Pet Holdings, Inc., the company behind the hugely popular blogs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog and others. The success of his sites can be attributed to his knowledge of memes, viral content and crowd-sourcing.
Some say, he is the world's foremost expert in the captioning of cat pictures. Some say, he is allergic to cats. Either way, his companies are party in the front, business in the back.
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Pet Holdings, Inc. operates a network of sites including I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog (known as The Cheezburger Network)
Lolcats & Loldogs:
http://icanhascheezburger.com
http://ihasahotdog.com
Fails:
http://failblog.org
http://engrishfunny.com
Celebs:
http://totallylookslike.com
http://roflrazzi.com
News & Pop Culture:
http://punditkitchen.com
http://graphjam.com
http://onceuponawin.com
eCards
http://bunwaycards.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 5 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 11 months)
(Acquired by Macrovision. Also held positions as Web Team Manager and eMarketing Manager.)
At InstallShield, Ben led a team of developers and designers who revamped the product Web site, raised customer satisfaction scores, and increased site response time by more than 400% through standardization of the site and simplifying the customer conversion process. Traffic increased by more than 30% in a one-year period for an already well-known company. Prior to that, he started a successful keyword advertising program while increasing the productivity of the online seminars using new processes and applications he developed. Lead generation from the online seminars grew more than five-fold. As the Director of eBusiness, he improved the handling of customer contact and communication in the CRM system and improved the reliability of supporting systems while reducing maintenance cost. Ben also actively participated in high-level strategy meetings and reported regularly to the CEO.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2001 — April 2002 (10 months)
Ben was the acting general manager for AccuRadio and assisted the CEO in acquiring advertising sponsors, business development, and managing the staff. Ben also served as the technology director.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 6 months)
* Lead a team of developers and sales staff.
* Raised more than $300,000 of private equity financing.
* Met all deadlines for delivery of product.
* Created and executed marketing and sales strategies.
* Negotiate contracts with Global 1000 and other clients.
* Developed technology and business partnerships.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
April 1999 — January 2000 (10 months)
BSJ , Journalism, Sociology , 1995 — 1999
Northwestern University Alumni