Ricky Van Veen

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period active = -present
host service = CollegeHumor
genre = Comedy
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homepage = [http://www.rickyvanveen/ www.rickyvanveen.com]

Ricky Van Veen is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of CollegeHumor.com, a popular comedy website. Van Veen created the site as a student at Wake Forest and it quickly became a mainstay. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/fashion/sundaystyles/24COLLEGE.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin New York Times: Sophomorically Incorrect] ] Van Veen's site was earning between $5-10 million dollars a year before the partners sold a controlling stake to IAC. [ [http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2006/sb20060912_833978.htm?chan=search Buying Sites with a Built in Audience] ] [ [http://gawker.com/news/top/barry-diller-officially-penetrates-boys-of-collegehumor-194284.php Barry Diller Buys CollegeHumor] ] He is also one of the principle owners and founders of Connected Ventures, a company formed around CollegeHumor that included Busted Tees and Vimeo. [ [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact2?printable=true The New Yorker] Funny Boys]

Van Veen also holds a patent for a foam version of The Shocker, a obscene sexual gesture. [ [http://rickyvanveen.com/post/31859663/grand-theft-patent] Grand Theft Patent] [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2FD495749 US Patent Office D495,749] CollegeHumor sold nearly 40,000 of the fingers the first year. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/fashion/sundaystyles/24COLLEGE.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin New York Times: Sophomorically Incorrect] ]

He primarily works as the site's editor but often appears in some of the company's video series such as Jake and Amir and "Hardly Working". [ [http://www.collegehumor.com/user:224 Ricky's page/bio on College Humor]

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External links

* [http://www.rickyvanveen.com/ Ricky Van Veen's Official Blog]