Christopher Poole

About Christopher Poole

Internet prodigy who created the anime-centric imageboard 4chan, which expanded from obscurity to a site that regularly affected web culture.

Christopher Poole, known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the anonymous English 4chan imageboard in October 2003, as well as being the site's primary administrator for over 11 years before stepping down in January 2015. He worked as an administrator at Google from 2016 to 2021.

Other names	moot
Occupation	Entrepreneur, Google employee
Born	c. 1988 (age 32–33), New York City, New York, United States
Known for	Founder and former administrator of 4chan

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Trivia

His site was called "the ground zero of Western web culture" and was also known as a Meme Factory, which he attributed to its total anonymity and zero data retention.

Christopher Poole before fame

When he was 15 years old, he started his message board under the alias moot.

Achievement of Christopher Poole

His site was dubbed"the ground zero of Western web culture", and he referred to it as a Meme Factory due to its extreme anonymity and zero data retention.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Christopher Poole family life

He married Marysol Castro, a weather anchor on television. The couple's twin sons, Liam and Gavin, were born.

Associations of Christopher Poole

Time magazine honored him Person of the Year in 2008. The next year, Mark Zuckerberg earned the same honor.

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