Angelo Sotira (born February 14, 1981) is an American
entrepreneur
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who co-founded the
online community
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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 in 1999, coming off of his stints at
Disney
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and the
Creative Artists Agency
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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
Wix management after Wix acquired DeviantArt for $36 million.
Personal life
Sotira was born in
Greece
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on February 14, 1981.
Currently, he is living in
Hollywood, California
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External links
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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, ...
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Living people
American computer businesspeople
Greek emigrants to the United States
American chief executives
1981 births