Avi Muchnick (born 1979) is an artist, author, programmer and entrepreneur. In 2002, while attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Muchnick co-founded the popular creative contest site

Worth1000 Worth1000 was an photoshopping, image manipulation and contest website. Worth1000 opened on January 1, 2002, and hosted over 340,000 unique images made in theme contests such as "Rejected Transformers", "Invisible World", and "Stupid Protests". ...

, together with Israel Derdik. In 2007, he co-founded

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, 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

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, 3,500 partners and 3 billion photos edited across its partner network. Muchnick served as CEO until December 2012, when he brought on former Walmart executive Tobias Peggs to take over, at which point he stepped into the Chief Product Officer role. On September 22, 2014, Aviary was acquired by Adobe Systems.Adobe acquires Aviary to boost Creative Cloud app development
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'', September 22, 2014 Muchnick was named one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by

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magazine in 2010.

Personal life

Prior to attending law school, Muchnick attended Queens College, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper, and

Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, also known as Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB), MTA (Manhattan Talmudical Academy) or TMSTA, is an Orthodox Jewish day school (or yeshiva) and the boys' prep school of Yeshiva University (YU) ...

. Muchnick lives on Long Island with his wife and 4 children.

References

External links

Avi Muchnick's Personal Blog
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