Honolulu LOLcats founder Kari Unebasami reveals herself

by billso on Saturday, 26 April 2008

From Wired: one of the founders of ICanHasCheezburger.com has revealed her iden­tity, as part of the annual ROFLcon fes­tiv­i­ties in Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts this weekend:

Until this week­end, [Kari] Unebasami had always elected to remain anony­mous, pre­fer­ring to oper­ate under the pseu­do­nym Tofuburger. “We were get­ting all these threats from users at [forum] 4chan,” she explained, refer­ring to 4chan’s attempts to claim the cat macro phe­nom­e­non. “I didn’t know how seri­ously to take them. But I’m offi­cially ‘out’ now, and ready to embrace everything.”

Kari and her part­ners, co-founder Eric Nak­a­gawa and CEO Ben Huh, are prepar­ing an LOL­cats book for the hol­i­day sea­son, so her iden­tity would have been revealed on Amazon.com any­way. A quick Google search reveals more infor­ma­tion about Kari Unebasami, includ­ing her pre­vi­ous employer (Pacific Basin Com­mu­ni­ca­tions) her Ama­zon pro­file, her Tech­Hui pro­file, and this pic­ture from MidWeek’s night life section.

Kari is from Hon­olulu. I expect the Star-Bulletin and Adver­tiser will run the usual “local makes good” sto­ries when they get the time.

ICHC executives, courtesy of Wired

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Tagged as: Google, Hawaii, Honolulu, lolcats, management, meme, privacy, san-francisco, seattle, startup

  • http://www.talkstink.com/ TS

    You’d be sur­prised. There are many suc­cess­ful locals who don’t gar­ner press. This is mainly because the Hawaii press oper­ates purely on what gets pumped into their morn­ing fax machine pile.

  • http://billso.com billso

    Thanks for the com­ment! So many Hawaii-based entre­pre­neurs live in stealth mode. I kind of like it that way, myself.

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