Christopher Poole

This article is about the founder of 4chan. For the Irish revolutionary, see Kit Poole.

Christopher Poole
Poole in 2012
Bornc. 1988 (age 35–36)[1]
New York City, New York, United States[1]
Other namesmoot
EducationVirginia Commonwealth University (no degree)
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, former Google employee
Known forFounder and former head administrator of 4chan

Christopher Poole (born c. 1988[1]), also known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur and developer. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager; he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015.[2] He also founded the online community Canvas, active from 2011 to 2014. Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to work on the Google+ social network[3] and as a product manager. He left the company in 2021.[4]

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