Alex Chung is an American serial entrepreneur.

He is the founder and chief executive officer of Giphy, ^[5]an online database and search engine to find and share animated GIF files.

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His previous startups include Artspace, a leading E-commerce destination for contemporary art; The Fridge, a private social network acquired by Google; and General Displays, a GE venture developing GE's next generation of HDTVs.

He has also directed media technology for MTV, NBC, Comcast, Charter, and managed future technologies for Paul Allen's R&D lab.

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Alex was one of the early architects of interactive television and started his career as a hardware engineer at Intel.

He was named one of Business Insider's Top 25 most influential technologists in New York and has degrees in philosophy, Electrical engineering / computer engineering, and graphic design.

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