Avi Muchnick

Avi Muchnick
Avi Muchnick, 2011
Avi Muchnick
(At the 2011 Luminance Conference)
Born1979 (age 45–46)
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materQueens College
OccupationEntrepreneur
Years active2002–Present
Known forWorth1000
Aviary
Websitewww.avimuchnick.com

Avi Muchnick (born 1979) is an artist, author, programmer and entrepreneur. Muchnick attended Queens College, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper.[1]

In 2002, while attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Muchnick co-founded the popular creative contest site Worth1000,[2] together with Israel Derdik.

In 2007, he co-founded Aviary, a company that built an award-winning[3] 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[4] and closed down Aviary's consumer-facing multimedia application suite, one year later on September 15, 2012.[5] As of March 2013, Aviary announced passing 35 million monthly active users, 3,500 partners and 3 billion photos edited across its partner network.[6] On September 22, 2014, Aviary was acquired by Adobe Systems.[7]

Muchnick was named one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT's Technology Review magazine in 2010.[8]

References

  1. ^ Arenson, Karen (December 11, 1999). "METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; College Paper Postpones Issue, Citing a Warning". The New York Times. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  2. ^ Colao, JJ (March 2, 2012). "Aviary is Quietly Cornering A Billion-Dollar Market". Forbes. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  3. ^ Levy, Francesca (March 9, 2013). "What Happened to the Former Darlings of SXSW? Market". LinkedIn. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  4. ^ Carr, Austin (January 17, 2012). "After Prescient Pivot, Aviary Tools Now Seeing 10 Million Photos A Month". Fast Company. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  5. ^ Muchnick, Avi (September 15, 2012). "The Advanced Suite is Officially Offline". Aviary. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  6. ^ Olanoff, Drew (March 5, 2013). "Aviary's Platform Has Been Used To Edit Over 3B Photos, And That Doesn't Even Include Twitter". TechCrunch. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  7. ^ Stynes, Tess (September 22, 2014). "Adobe Acquires Aviary to Boost Creative Cloud App Development". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on August 3, 2024. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  8. ^ Cass, Stephen (October 1, 2010). "2010 Winners: Avi Muchnick, 31, Cloud-based multimedia editing software". MIT Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved April 11, 2013.