Angelo Sotira (born February 14, 1981) is an American

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who co-founded the

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DeviantArt DeviantArt (historically stylized as deviantART) is an American online art community that features artwork, videography and photography, launched on August 7, 2000 by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others. DeviantArt, ...

on August 7, 2000, with Matthew Stephens and Scott Jarkoff.

Career

Angelo co-founded DeviantArt at nineteen, 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 Michael Steven Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later served as preside ...

in 1999, coming off of his stints at

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and the

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. 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. As of 2017, Sotira is a member of the

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management after Wix acquired DeviantArt for $36 million.

Personal life

Sotira was born in

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on February 14, 1981. Currently, he is living in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sotira, Angelo Living people American computer businesspeople Greek emigrants to the United States American chief executives 1981 births

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