500px (pronounced "five hundred px") is a global online photo-sharing platform that is a subsidiary of Visual China Group. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[2][3] It was co-founded by Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev on October 31, 2009.[4]
History
Evgeny Tchebotarev started 500px in 2003 on the social blogging website LiveJournal[5] as a hobby, while he completed a business degree at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).[6] At the time, 500 pixels was considered a good size for web display