Alex Chung

Alex Chung

Alex Chung is currently the founder & CEO of Giphy. His latest startups: Artspace, a leading ecommerce destination for contemporary art, The Fridge, a private social network acquired by Google, and General Displays, GE's next generation of HDTVs.

New York, New York, United States
Member since October 22, 2015
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Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of Giphy. His latest startups include Artspace, a leading ecommerce destination for contemporary art, The Fridge, a private social network acquired by Google, and General Displays a GE venture developing GE's next generation of HDTVs.

 

He has also directed media technology for MTV, NBC, Comcast, Charter, and managed future technologies for Paul Allen's R&D lab.  He was one of the early architects of interactive television and started his career as a hardware engineer at Intel.

 

He was named on Business Insider's Top 25 most influential technologists in New York and has degrees in philosophy, electrical/computer engineering, and graphic design.