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.
