Eileen Gittins

Eileen Gittins is a self-described technology geek who studied English and journalism at UC Berkeley and ended up falling in love with photography for its ability to tell stories. After gigs at Eastman Kodak (she got her first job there by pestering them until they caved) and the launch of two successful startups (Salsa and Personify), vialis 40mg she wanted to pay tribute to some of the “Bay Area Renaissance people” she had worked with in her various ventures by photographing them. But when she then tried to assemble those portraits into a format that gave them depth — a book — she was shocked to discover that with all the great digital and other types of innovations out there, advice you still couldn’t create your own high-quality book without spending tens of thousands of dollars. As an entrepreneur, she knew she’d found a problem to solve that married her love of photography, technology, and books.

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