6th grade students got to spend Thursday afternoon in a Q & A session with Emily Huh, co-owner of the Cheezburger Network.  Her company runs 50 blogs dedicated to making people all over the world laugh.  The most popular sites are FailBlog (2M+ pageviews per day) and ICanHazCheezburger (1M+ pageviews per day).

Emily shared stories of her days as a middle school students, her interests in reading and music, and her decision to study sociology in college.  She told us about day-to-day life at Cheezburger headquarters in Belltown and how the company focuses on trying to make people laugh.  Much of the content on the site comes from people who send in funny photos or videos.  The company makes money by selling merchandise (t-shirts, stickers, etc) and by advertising space.

Emily also outlined the types of jobs at her company.  The Cheezburger Network needs people to manage blogs, handle user photo submissions and more.  Employees may have a background as an artist, musician, mathematician, sales person, or any number of interests and work histories.  Thank you Emily!