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Zach Klein
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1982) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zach Klein (born September 26, 1982) is an American entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder of Vimeo.[1] In addition to Vimeo, he co-founded the children's learning website DIY.org and worked as an executive at Boxee, Skillshare, and as CEO of Dwell.[2][3] Known for design of healthy digital communities, he has taught Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts.[4]
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Education
Klein spent his earliest years in Western New York and later lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he attended Bishop Luers High School. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University[5] where he was a studio art major.[6]
Career
He was a partner at Connected Ventures, which founded and operated CollegeHumor.[7] He was a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, where he taught in the MFA program in Interaction Design.[4]
Klein created the Cabin Porn phenomenon, which was initially an online project "created by a group of friends to inspire their own homebuilding" but grew into a global phenomenon, attracting thousands of submissions from fellow cabin builders.[8][9][10]
In February 2020, Klein was appointed as CEO of the design and technology brand Dwell.[11]
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Selected publications
In 2015, Klein published the Cabin Porn photo-book[12] followed by Cabin Porn: Inside in 2020.[13][14]
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