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4chan

Poole established 4chan on October 1, 2003, using translated source codefrom 2chan, and sought to combine the anime culture on 2chan with the community on Something Awful. In April 2009, Poole was voted the most influential person of 2008 with 16,794,368 votes by an open Internet poll conducted by Time, beating out the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Oprah Winfrey. It was soon discovered that the users of the /b/ board had manipulated the results of the poll in Poole's favor. Sever...

Canvas

In 2010, it was reported that Poole had raised $625,000 to create a new online enterprise, Canvas. Among the site's investors were Marc Andreessen and Joshua Schachter. Canvas officially launched on January 31, 2011, in beta, and featured digitally modified images created by users of the site. In contrast to 4chan, users were required to identify themselves using Facebook Connect.A similar app, called DrawQuest, launched on February 8, 2013. On January 21, 2014, Poole announced that, effectiv...

Post-4chan

On January 21, 2015, Poole stepped down as the head administrator of 4chan. Two days later, he held his final 4chan Q&A. Following his departure from 4chan, he began to turn the site over to three anonymous 4chan moderators while looking for a buyer for the website. On September 21, 2015, Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel, took over as the site's owner. On March 8, 2016, via a post on Tumblr, Poole announced that he had been hired by Google in an undisclosed position, a decision tha...

In November 2012, it was reported that Poole had sent a cease and desistletter to the startup moot.it, citing the similarities between the startup's name and his username, moot.