Angelo Sotira Explained

Angelo Sotira
Nationality:	American
Birth Date:	14 February 1981
Birth Place:	Greece
Occupation:	Entrepreneur
Known For:	Co-founding DeviantArt

Angelo Sotira (born February 14, 1981) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the online community DeviantArt on August 7, 2000, with Matthew Stephens and Scott Jarkoff.

Career

Angelo co-founded DeviantArt at nineteen,^[1] but it was not his first company. Four years earlier, he started a music file-sharing site called Dimension Music. He sold it to Michael Ovitz in 1999, coming off of his stints at Disney and the Creative Artists Agency. Angelo worked the next two years at Ovitz's Artist Management Group & Lynx Technology Group (Ovitz's Internet investment arm) where he advised on how those companies could best strategically integrate the opportunities from emerging commercial applications of the Internet.^{[2] [3]}

As of 2017, Sotira is a member of the Wix management after Wix acquired DeviantArt for $36 million.^[4]

Personal life

Sotira was born in Greece on February 14, 1981.^[5] Currently, he is living in Hollywood, California.^[6]

Further reading

• Web site: Teen Internet Moguls. February 1, 2011. https://archive.today/20041107064610/http://www.gnextinc.com/capitalist/articles/internetmoguls.html. November 7, 2004. dead.
• Web site: Stop being weak. An Interview with Angelo Sotira, CEO of deviantART.com (TCTV). TechCrunch. Cyan Banister. 2010-08-22.

External links

• Angelo Sotira on DeviantArt

Notes and References

1. Web site: ceo life. Angelo Sotira.
2. Web site: The Deviant Experience. January 25, 2011 . Entrepreneur.
3. Web site: TMD: 10 X 10. February 1, 2011. September 28, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110928081503/http://news.deviantart.com/article/125134/. dead.
4. Web site: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M. Lunden. Ingrid. February 23, 2017. TechCrunch. February 23, 2017. As part of this acquisition, Angelo Sotira, co-founder and CEO of DeviantArt, will join the Wix management team, along with the rest of DeviantArt's employees..
5. Web site: RESUME: Angelo Sotira . 2011-12-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111128150941/http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_22/b3683148.htm . November 28, 2011 .
6. Web site: spyed on DeviantArt. January 30, 2017.