Saturday, November 20, 2010

Names You Need To Know In 2011: Ben Huh

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This post is part of an ambitious project to crowd-source the December issue of Forbes Magazine.  Click here to submit your own ideas for “Names You Need to Know in 2011.”  The best will run in the magazine.

Ben Huh hasn’t built the thriving online Cheezburger Network mini-empire around cute animals because he hoards cats.

It’s because Huh knows humanity has spent thousands of years making cute animals even cuter. He’s just taking advantage of all that work.

“What we have done to cats and dogs is spend the last 10,000 years breeding them so they would be like that,” Huh said inan interview with Forbes earlier this year. “Kittens and puppies have become weapons of cuteness.” The result: 2 million visitors a month, according to Quantcast.


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