Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur.

She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attended Choate Rosemary
Hall, Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991. She is
Filipino-American. After working variously at an investment bank, as a
painter's assistant, on a crew shooting interstitials for Seinfeld and
in a dive shop in Arkansas, she moved to San Francisco in 1994, where
she started working in the nascent Web industry. In 2001 she moved to
Vancouver, BC.

She is best known as the co-founder of Flickr, a photo-sharing service
developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.
Flickr ushered in the so-called Web 2.0 integrating features such as
social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that
surfaced the best, or more interesting content. Prior to founding
Ludicorp she was Art Director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the
development of online community, social software and personal
publishing.

She has won many awards, including BusinessWeek's Best Leaders of
2005, Forbes 2005 eGang, Fast Company's Fast 50, and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35. She appeared with her husband and Flickr
co-founder Stewart Butterfield on the cover of Newsweek on March 27,
2006, and in 2006 was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of
the world's 100 most influential people. She sits on the board of
Etsy, and advises many startups and new businesses. At Yahoo! she runs
the Technology Development group, known for its Hack Yahoo! program, a stimulus to innovation and creativity, and Brickhouse, a rapid
development environment for new products.

She lives in San Francisco, California and publishes a blog at
http://www.caterina.net/

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