Eric Nakagawa

[2] "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.

[4] ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-based image macros and lolspeak into mainstream usage.

He spoke at SXSW in March 2008 [7] about the LolCats success, and was featured in the Google Authors Series.

[10] As of June 2019, Nakagawa was head of open-source for Facebook's cryptocurrency project Libra.