Claim: Ben Huh, graduate of Northwestern University, is the CEO of Cheezburger, a website that brought animal based memes and lolspeak into the mainstream consciousness.
Evidence: Ben Huh is a South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur and the CEO of The Cheezburger Network, which at its peak in 2010 received 375 million views a month across its 50 sites. In September 2007, Huh connected with a group of angel investors to buy I Can Has Cheezburger. He likes to joke that his investor pitch was "I would like to start a media company by buying a cat picture website. At the time, the site was getting viewed 500,000 times daily, which Huh notes was "fantastic for a cat picture site that nobody understood." Huh states that "we felt like that there was a pretty good possibility that we were buying into a cultural phenomenon, a shift in the way people perceived entertainment." Currently, Huh runs Cheezburger, which received 375 million page views a month in 2011 across its 50 sites, including I Can Has Cheezburger, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, Know Your Meme, and Memebase.