[4] SmugMug was founded by son and father team Don and Chris MacAskill and launched on November 3, 2002.

[1] The company was started without any venture capital funding, and for a time was run out of the MacAskill family home.

In a 2007 article, the Los Angeles Times wrote: They started on a shoestring budget in 2002, not moving into real offices in Mountain View, Calif., until April.

Before that, the MacAskills and their employees set up shop in the five-bedroom home of Chris and his wife, Toni.

)[4] SmugMug and Flickr are certified benefit corporations committed to preserving photographic history.