Moot

Moot channels $18M for a platform and toolkit to power e-commerce strategies for brands

E-commerce today is played out wherever a consumer sees something and wants it — be it on a company’s site or app, a social media feed, a marketplace, a search or an advert. Today a startu

4chan founder Chris Poole will try to fix social at Google

Google never “got” social. For all the resources thrown at it, Google+ just never quite felt human. But luckily Google just hired the guy behind 4chan — a site that epitomized the go

Moot Reflects On 11 Years Running 4chan, The Web’s Wild West

 There was never another full-time employee through 11.5 years, over 42 billion page views, and 20 million active users. But after starting the image board where any one could post anything at just 1

Moot Rebrands As Muut (Yes, Really), Raises $770K To Make Online Forums Less Ugly

Moot.it, a startup launched last April to do away with ugly online forums by offering a flexible, customizable and more modern-looking platform for online discussions, has raised $770,000 in new fund

Goodbye Ugly Forums! Moot Is A Flexible And Modern Platform For Online Discussion (And It’s Free)

<a target="_blank" href="http://moot.it/">Moot</a>, a startup offering a new take on commenting and forums, is launching today after three and a half years of development with the goal of bringing the

Art-Obsessed 4chan Founder Chris “moot” Poole Opens Up About His New App DrawQuest

After spending most of his life tackling the world of digital media, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/4chan">4chan</a> and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/14/4chan-fo

I Believe In Google Plus

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/google_plus.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-439657" title="google_plus" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10

(Founder Stories) Christopher Poole: Build A Product Before You Build A Platform

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/moot-and-dixon.jpg" /> One of the biggest startup cliches is that every other startup wants to become a platform for other startups to build

(Founder Stories) Moot Reimagines The Image Board With A Fresh Canvas

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/king-moot.jpg" /> When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) started <a href="http://www.4chan.org/">4chan</a>, it was a very basic image board that a

(Founder Stories) Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/moot.jpg" /> When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the <a href="http://www.4chan.org/">4chan</a> image board on an I

Moot On 4Chan User Survey: "It's Total Garbage."

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/screen-shot-2010-12-27-at-12-04-43-pm.png" alt="" /> Over the weekend, a interesting demographic survey of over 6000 4Chan users made the rou

Video: Time Magazine explains how 4Chan's moot came to dominate the Time 100 list

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mootmoot.jpg" />Time Magazine <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/4chan-takes-over-the-time-100/">discovered last year</a> <i>the