The Inspiring Story Of The Man Behind SmugMug And FatBrain – with Chris MacAskill

Chris MacAskill, SmugMug, Content, Hiring

Chris MacAskill is the co-founder of SmugMug, the premium photo sharing site. Previously, he co-founded Fatbrain, the online bookseller which sold to Barnes & Noble.

He also worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT, produced an award-winning PBS documentary on Geophysics, and traveled the world for 10 years doing Geophysics until his family said, “Stop traveling!”

Here’s his story.

Chris MacAskill

SmugMug

Chris MacAskill is the co-founder of SmugMug, the premium photo sharing site. Previously, he co-founded Fatbrain,  the online bookseller which sold to Barnes & Noble, worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT, produced an award-winning PBS documentary on Geophysics, and traveled the world for 10 years doing Geophysics until his family said, “Stop traveling!”

 

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Andrew: Hey everyone its Andrew Warner founder of mixergy.com home of the ambitious upstart. How many guys remember fatbrain? how many guys are members or have seen pictures on smugmug? I’ve got the founder of- the co-founder of smugmug, the founder of fatbrain, and mightywords and this guys had a very interesting career. I’ve got with me Chris MacAskill. Chris, I’m going to ask you this right up...

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