Ilya Zhitomirskiy

Ilya Zhitomirskiy
At Wiki-Conference New York, July 2009
Born(1989-10-12)12 October 1989
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died12 November 2011(2011-11-12) (aged 22)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Software developer, entrepreneur
Known forDiaspora Co-Founder

Ilya Zhitomirskiy (12 October 1989 – 12 November 2011)[1] was an American software developer and entrepreneur.[2] Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that powers it.[3]

Biography

Early life

Zhitomirskiy was born on 12 October 1989, in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Alexei Medovikov and Inna Zhitomirskaya. Both his father and maternal grandfather are mathematicians. In 2000, his family emigrated to the United States, eventually settling outside Philadelphia, where he graduated from Lower Merion High School in 2007. Zhitomirskiy first attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts. He then studied mathematics, economics and computer science at Tulane University, University of Maryland, and New York University. In his free time, Zhitomirskiy unicycled and was a competitive ballroom dancer.[1]

Diaspora

At NYU, he studied computer science at The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where he met the three friends with whom he founded diaspora*, a social networking service,[4] in 2010.[5][6] The project was conceived after the founders had attended a lecture by Columbia Law School professor and free software activist Eben Moglen in February 2010 about the threat to privacy posed by commercial Internet services. According to Moglen, Zhitomirskiy was "immensely talented" and "the most idealistic of the group... He had a choice between graduate school and this project, and he chose to do the project because he wanted to do something with his time that would make freedom".[1]

Death

On the evening of 12 November 2011, Zhitomirskiy was found dead in his San Francisco home by police responding to calls about a suspected suicide.[7][8] An autopsy report from the Medical Examiner's office formally ruled the death as a suicide in April 2012.[9] He died from an intentional inert gas asphyxiation using helium. While press reports questioned whether the pressure of working on Diaspora had led to his suicide, Diaspora co-founder Maxwell Salzberg disagreed. Salzberg stated, "Yes, I agree that being a startup founder is stressful. But it wasn’t the stress of work that killed Ilya. He had his own issues. He was sick." Zhitomirskiy’s mother, Inna Zhitomirskiy, did not comment on reports of his history of mental illness, but she did say on his participation in Diaspora, "I strongly believe that if Ilya did not start this project and stayed in school, he would be well and alive today."[10][11]

The Village Voice said that Zhitomirskiy was "often described as the most idealistic and privacy-conscious member of the group" and declared his death "a devastating setback" for Diaspora.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c Vitello, Paul (15 November 2011). "Ilya Zhitomirskiy Dies at 22; Co-Founded Social Network". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  2. ^ "Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22 - The New York Times". The New York Times. 2023-12-05. Archived from the original on 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  3. ^ "Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22 - The New York Times". The New York Times. 2023-12-05. Archived from the original on 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  4. ^ Chen, Adrian (14 November 2011). "Why Did This 22-Year-Old Entrepreneur Commit Suicide?". Gawker. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011.
  5. ^ "Co-founder of Facebook alternative Diaspora dead at 22". Sydney Morning Herald. 15 November 2011.
  6. ^ Nussbaum, Emily (26 September 2010). "Defacebook — Four young friends who are out to create a very different sort of social network". New York Magazine.
  7. ^ Pepitone, Julianne (14 November 2011). "Co-founder of social network Diaspora dies at 22". CNN. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  8. ^ Muncy, Jeremy (15 November 2011). "Ilya Zhitomirskiy Update: Reports Show Diaspora Co-Founder Committed Suicide". WebProNews. Archived from the original on 13 December 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  9. ^ "Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22 - The New York Times". The New York Times. 2023-12-05. Archived from the original on 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  10. ^ Weise, Karen (15 May 2012). "On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  11. ^ Matthew, Shaer (26 March 2013). "Life, death, and free culture in the Mission". Fortune Magazine. Archived from the original on 31 March 2013.
  12. ^ Pinto, Nick (15 February 2012). "Rise of the Facebook-Killers". The Village Voice. p. 3. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
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