Christopher Poole (born c. 1988[1]), also known online as moot, is an American internet entrepreneur and developer. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager; he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015.[2] He also founded the online community Canvas, active from 2011 to 2014. Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to work