Editing Anil Dash (section)

==Career==
In 1999, Dash launched his personal weblog, dashes.com (now anildash.com), while working as an independent technology consultant. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a [[new media]] developer for the ''[[Village Voice]]'' before becoming the first employee of [[Six Apart]], the makers of [[Movable Type]], [[TypePad]], and [[Vox (blogging platform)|Vox]], where he served as a vice president until 2009.<ref name="The Blog Herald 2006">{{cite web | title=Interview: The Low Down On Six Apart (With Anil Dash) | website=The Blog Herald | date=2006-12-05 | url=https://blogherald.com/2006/12/05/interview-the-low-down-on-six-apart-with-anil-dash/ | access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref><ref name="Peisner 2014">{{cite web | last=Peisner | first=David | title=What Really Happened During Evan Williams's Worst SXSW Moment? | website=Fast Company | date=2014-03-05 | url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3026992/what-really-happened-during-evan-williams-worst-sxsw-moment | access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref>

From 2009 to 2012 he served as the director of [[Expert Labs]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.observer.com/2009/media/dash-dc-tech-guru-will-head-govt-incubator-digitize-democracy |title=Dash to D.C.! Tech Guru Will Head Gov't Incubator, Digitize Democracy |work=[[The New York Observer]] |first=Gillian |last=Reagan |date=November 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121174612/http://www.observer.com/2009/media/dash-dc-tech-guru-will-head-govt-incubator-digitize-democracy |archivedate=November 21, 2009 }}</ref> a [[Gov 2.0]] project to facilitate political participation.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/one-to-one-anil-dash-of-expert-labs-and-six-apart |title=One on One: Anil Dash of Expert Labs |work= bits.blogs.nytimes.com, [[The New York Times]] |date=January 13, 2010 |last=Bilton |first=Nick }}</ref> After this work, he became an advisor to the [[Office_of_Digital_Strategy|White House Office of Digital Strategy]] under the Obama administration.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/5576442/tech-optimists/ |title=Why TIME's 2019 Tech Optimists Are Upbeat About Silicon Valley's Future |magazine=Time |date= 7 August 2019 |last1=Austin|first=Patrick Lucas|last2=De La Garza|first2=Alejandro|last3=Fitzpatrick| first3=Alex| last4=Gregory| first4=Sean | access-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

He was also previously a partner with Michael J. Wolf in Activate Consulting, a media and technology [[management consulting]] firm,<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-wolf-and-anil-dash-brace-media-for-the-new-world-2010-2 |title=Michael Wolf and Anil Dash Brace Media for the New World |publisher=[[Business Insider]] |date= 25 February 2010 |last=Hatch |first=Lauren }}</ref><ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite web | title=Company overview of Activate Inc. | website=Bloomberg | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=10839628&privcapId=263560042 | access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref> and a co-founder (with [[Gina Trapani]]) and CEO of ThinkUp, a social media aggregation and analysis tool.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/thinkup-app-company-gina-trapani-anil-dash/|title=ThinkUp App Goes For-Profit in Bid To Decentralize The Social Web|last=Taylor|first=Colleen|date=26 March 2012|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2021-10-31}}</ref> The company was shuttered in June 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@anildash/the-end-of-thinkup-e600bc46cc56|title=The end of ThinkUp|last=Dash|first=Anil|date=2016-06-13|website=Anil Dash|access-date=2021-10-31}}</ref> Dash was appointed CEO of Fog Creek Software in December 2016.<ref name="fogcreekceo">{{cite web|title=A New Product Name, and a New CEO|url=https://blog.fogcreek.com/a-new-product-name-and-a-new-ceo/|website=Fog Creek Software Company Blog|access-date=2021-10-31|df=mdy-all|archive-date=2016-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220091852/https://blog.fogcreek.com/a-new-product-name-and-a-new-ceo/|url-status=dead}}</ref> On September 25, 2018, the company was renamed Glitch after its flagship product.<ref name="Dash 2018">{{cite web|last=Dash|first=Anil|title=Fog Creek is now Glitch!|website=Medium|date=2018-09-25|url=https://medium.com/make-better-software/fog-creek-is-now-glitch-8d0308aaf69e|access-date=2021-10-31|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In March 2020, Glitch and its union signed a collective bargaining agreement, the first in the tech industry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schiffer |first=Zoe |date=2 March 2021 |title=Glitch workers sign tech's first collective bargaining agreement |url=https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/2/22307671/glitch-workers-sign-historic-collective-bargaining-agreement-cwa |access-date=2021-11-01 |website=The Verge}}</ref>

Dash was host of ''Function with Anil Dash'', a podcast about technology's effects on culture, co-produced by Glitch and [[Vox Media]]<ref>{{cite podcast |host=Anil Dash|title=Introducing Function with Anil Dash |website=Function with Anil Dash |publisher=Vox Media Podcast Network |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-function-with-anil-dash/id1439658455?i=1000422209590 |date=19 October 2018 |access-date=7 March 2022}}</ref> The podcast ran for two seasons from 2018 to 2020.

Dash is also a scholar of the musician [[Prince (musician)|Prince]].<ref name=":0" />