O. Raška, V. Valka: Enjoying Pixmac, the first international project by Miton (45 min.)
- Business Hall
- cs › en
Pixmac is a stock photo agency that won silver medal at WebExpo StartupShow 2009 and was awarded as most innovative online company at IEA09.
Pixmac is growing steadily. Those guys simply like challenges. Pixmac local version is available in 17 countries already. Currently they are working on China and Japan.
Ondřej Raška (CZ)
Owner at MITON CZ
Ten years ago he cofounded MITON with Milan, Tomáš and Michal. In the year 2007 they sold the server Stahuj.cz to the Netcentrum, or more precisely to the investment group Warburg Pincus. In the present MITON has its hands on the servers Heureka.cz, Hotel.cz, Pixmac.com and Slevomat.cz. More information about the portfolio can be found at www.miton.cz or www.admarket.cz .
Ondřej STILL thinks he understands the programming and the internet. He's been finishing doctoral study in VŠE - Faculty of Informatics and Statistics for a few years now. His favorite sports are floorball and squash.
Vitezslav Valka (CZ)
CEO at Pixmac
He went through a lot of branches of designing. He studied the industrial design, exhibitions, urbanism and graphical design. His first job was sticker at the exhibition grounds and the webdesigner. He co-founded the company called Stickfish, and he worked there for 5 years. At the Charles University, he studied the "Electronic media and semiotics".
Today, he is the CEO of Pixmac, the online photo stock agency. He is Open Source and Linux enthusiast and his "open company" opinion is very unique.