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Apoorva Dutt · · 1 min read

9Gag’s founder reveals how ‘just sharing funny photos’ became a media empire

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Funnyman Ray Chan, creator of everyone’s favorite time-wasting site 9Gag, talked to Leighton Cosseboom, former editor of Tech in Asia Indonesia, at Tech in Asia’s 2015 conference in Singapore about the site’s origins, failed and successful ventures, and future.

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