Introduction
Eric Nakagawa is the co-founder of the humor site I Can Has Cheezburger?.
Education and career
Prior to co-founding I Can Has Cheezburger? Nakagawa worked as a Software Developer in Honolulu, Hawaii. "In early 2007, after a bad day at work, Eric Nakagawa asked his friend (and future co-founder) Kari Unebasami to send him a photo of something cute to make him feel better. She sent over a few cat images, superimposed with phonetically spelled phrases, or LOLspeak, and the two knew they’d found their calling."Nakagawa and Unebasami sold I Can Has Cheezburger? to Ben Huh in July 2007. ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-based image macros and lolspeak into mainstream usage.
Nakagawa is a New York Times bestselling author with his book "I Can Has Cheezburger?" appearing on the New York Times Best Sellers list in January 2009.
Nakagawa is a public speaker on the subject of web development. He spoke at SXSW in March 2008about the LolCats success, and was featured in the Google Authors Series.
In 2012 he co-founded the travel website SimpleHoney. It was acquired by Ripple in April 2013.
As of June 2019, Nakagawa was head of open-source for Facebook's cryptocurrency project Libra.
Personal life
Nakagawa currently resides in San Francisco.