Location Portland, Oregon, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Chris unknowingly started his career in high school when he started building his band's website. The site quickly needed features which weren't widely available in 2001, so he picked up some Perl to create a more custom & dynamic experience. After abandoning CS and Business degrees, he began working full time on freelance web projects
until meeting COLOURlovers founder, Darius Monsef, in 2006. He became a co-founder of COLOURlovers in 2007, and the duo joined forces with Aaron Epstein of Color Schemer in 2009.
In 2010, the three founders joined the winter 2010 YC batch and in early 2012 pivoted COLOURlovers into what is now Creative Market.
In 2014 Creative Market was acquired by Autodesk.
