About
Caterina Fake brings a humanities-first perspective to venture investing, having trained as an artist and English literature major before co-founding Flickr and explicitly building it as online community rather than attention-hacking social media. She's known for spotting cultural movements early through this outsider lens, backing companies like Kickstarter and Etsy before they fit Silicon Valley pattern recognition, and hosts the tech podcast Should This Exist? while questioning whether technologies should be built rather than simply whether they can be. Caterina Fake brings a humanities-first perspective to venture investing, having trained as an artist and English literature major before co-founding Flickr and explicitly building it as online community rather than attention-hacking social media. She's known for spotting cultural movements early through this outsider lens, backing companies like Kickstarter and Etsy before they fit Silicon Valley pattern recognition, and hosts the tech podcast Should This Exist? while questioning whether technologies should be built rather than simply whether they can be.
