Andy Baio
American blogger
Andy Baio (born 1977) is an American technologist and blogger. He is the co-founder of the XOXO festival, founder of the Upcoming social calendar website, a former CTO of Kickstarter, and the author of the Waxy.org blog.
Career
In 2003, while working as a webmaster at a Texas-based financial company, Baio launched the Upcoming collaborative event calendar. The site was acquired by Yahoo for $2 million in 2005 and Baio joined the company as the site's Technical Director. In 2007, Baio announced his departure from Yahoo.
In September 2008, Baio joined the board of directors of Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website that helps people with project ideas to connect with potential funders. Baio later joined the staff as Chief Technical Officer in July 2009, stepping down in November 2010 to join Expert Labs. After Yahoo closed Upcoming and offered to sell the domain back to Baio, he launched a Kickstarter campaign that surpassed its $30,000 goal in May 2014 to revive the site.
In June 2017, Baio joined the Fuzzco creative studio as Technology Director.
In October 2018, Baio and his fellow XOXO festival cofounder Andy McMillan announced they would be taking over Drip, a creator funding platform that Kickstarter had acquired in 2016.
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