Angelo Sotira

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Angelo Sotira : biography

February 14, 1981 –

Angelo Sotira (born February 14, 1981) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded online community deviantArt on August 7, 2000 with Matthew Stephens and Scott Jarkoff.

Career

Angelo founded deviantART at nineteen, but it wasn’t his first company. Four years earlier, he started a music file-sharing site called Dimension Music. He sold it to Michael Ovitz in 1999, coming off of his stints at Disney and the Creative Artists Agency. Angelo worked the next two years at Ovitz’s Artist Management Group & Lynx Technology Group (Ovtiz’s Internet investment arm) where he advised on how those companies could best strategically integrate the opportunities from emerging commercial applications of the Internet.

Personal life

Sotira was born in Greece on February 14, 1981. Currently, he is living in Hollywood, California.http://spyed.deviantart.com/ He dated actress Janina Gavankar for 5 years.http://sapnamagazine.com/2010/janina-gavankar/