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Co-Founder, CollegeHumor

Ricky Van Veen co-founded CollegeHumor.com from his Wake Forest University dorm room in 1999, and built it into one of the Web’s breakout comedy sites. In 2006, he sold control of the company to IAC, and since then he has been focused on video, both for his original site and for Notional, a production company that creates hit shows like Food Network’s Chopped. Coffee Town, his first movie, is slated for release this year.

Posts With Ricky Van Veen

Day Two at D: Dive Into Media 2013, in Pictures and Tweets

Storified: The best tweets and pictures from the second day of D: Dive Into Media.
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Vice’s Shane Smith and CollegeHumor’s Ricky Van Veen Are Kings of All Media

Build a brand and an audience, and you can do whatever you want.
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CollegeHumor Launches Bout, a Photo Game App

Quick, find or take a photo that answers the prompt: “Something you wouldn’t want to find in your bed.”
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Game On! Xbox Bosses Mehdi, Tellem Come to Dive Into Media.

The Xbox is a Web TV player that also happens to work for games. Meet the people in charge of making it an even bigger deal in the media world.
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Meet the Man Who Wants to Blow Up the TV Business: Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen Comes to Dive Into Media

A rare appearance from a maverick billionaire with big plans.
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Old Media, New Tricks: The New Republic’s Chris Hughes and USA Today’s Larry Kramer Join Dive Into Media

Two very smart guys with very different backgrounds and a similar problem: How do you transform iconic print publications for the digital era?
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Netflix Content Boss Ted Sarandos Comes to D: Dive Into Media, With a Mystery Guest in Tow

The streaming service’s man in Hollywood joins us onstage, alongside a key member of the Arrested Development crew.
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The Hardware Guys Meet the Content Guys: Intel’s Huggers, Samsung’s Eun Coming to D: Dive Into Media

Two more heavy hitters with lots of news to talk about join our cast: The man heading up Intel’s new pay-TV push, and Samsung’s content + Silicon Valley chief.
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Web Video Is Easy! Just Ask CollegeHumor’s Ricky Van Veen and Vice Media’s Shane Smith at Dive Into Media 2013.

Every old media company is trying to figure out how to port their stuff to the Internet. These two guys are headed in the other direction.
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Serious Business? CollegeHumor Tries Selling Web Video.

Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld are Web stars. But the fans who watch their videos on CollegeHumor don’t pay to watch them. Time to see what happens when they charge for their stuff.
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