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4chan Founder Seeks Hackers

Ryan Tate · 07/27/10 07:53PM

Chris Poole is looking for hackers for his new startup Canvas Networks, which is pretty strange considering the last website he started, 4chan, is notoriously a place teeming with, uh, hackers. Going legit isn't always an intuitive process.

4chan Founder Gets Funding For Mystery Startup

Adrian Chen · 05/14/10 06:05PM

Christopher Poole (aka "Moot") founded the unruly message board 4chan as a place for anime enthusiasts to hang out. Now it's a crazy, sometimes-scary morass of nascent memes, porn, racism. But Poole is about to go legit.