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IST Startup Week 2015
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Chris Fanini

IST ’12
Co-founder and CTO, Weebly

Fanini is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Weebly, a tech start-up based out of San Francisco. Weebly is an extremely simple and powerful way for anyone to create a website, blog or online store. More than 20 million people have created a website with Weebly, and 12 percent of the U.S. population visits a Weebly website every month.

Chris grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and attended Pennsbury High School. While in high school he started a web hosting company, followed by one of the area’s first wireless ISP's, which provided high-speed internet and voice services to small businesses who couldn't get access to Cable or DSL.

Chris went on to study IST at Penn State, then moved to San Francisco with his co-founders to start Weebly.

Chris has a passion for technology, infrastructure, and the web. He's an avid snowboarder, angel and real estate investor, and hours away from obtaining his private pilot’s license.

Weebly was named one of Time’s 50 best websites of 2007 and has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., and Entrepreneur magazines, as well as on NBC and the BBC.