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  • This Is What Winning Feels Like, Smiling Cigar Guy Edition

    Alexia Tsotsis

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    Wednesday, October 6th, 2010


    Meet “Where’s Smiling Cigar Guy?,“ the breakout meme star of such photos as “Tiger Woods Hits Ball At Photographer” (see below) and such Tumblrs as Smiling Cigar Man | Awesome Face Fan.

    So, imagine how honored we were when we realized after careful study of our photo archives that Smiling Cigar Guy had been both on stage with winners Qwiki at TC Disrupt AND at Social Currency CrunchUp

    And of course there’s a sub-meme, “Smiling Cigar Guy Takes Over The World.”

    Company: Qwiki
    Website: qwiki.com
    Launch Date: October 2009
    Funding: $10.5M

    Qwiki is an industry leader in automated video production. Most recently, Qwiki released an iPhone app that automatically turns the pictures and videos from a user’s camera roll into brief, beautiful movies to share. The company’s initial product, an iPad application that created video summaries of over 3 million search terms, was downloaded more than 3 million times and named by Apple as the best Search and Reference application of 2011. After integrating this technology in the Bing Search...

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