

Regarding the company's name, Matt Wisdom said: "Having a good brand is a really important part of having a business.

In 2021, TurboSquid was acquired by Shutterstock for $75M.

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In that same year, Autodesk bought marketplace software from Turbosquid for $26M. In 2011, the registered membership has crossed the 2.3 million mark, and the number of contributing artists has passed 20,000. In August 2009, TurboSquid implemented the SquidGuild, a loyalty program that pays higher royalties to artists who post their 3D models exclusively at TurboSquid. Andy Wisdom moved on to Chairman of TurboSquid's board and began working in the finance industry. In 2006, Matt Wisdom became the company CEO. Rather than relocate, the company decided to return to New Orleans, which it did in November 2005. Because the company's business is run on servers outside New Orleans, and employees were able to continue work over the Internet, the site's business was able to maintain record growth through the whole period of displacement. Also in 2005, levee failures in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic flooding and prompted the evacuation of nearly 500,000 city residents, including all of TurboSquid's New Orleans staff. In 2005, Matt Wisdom and Andy Wisdom initiated and were instrumental in drafting and passing the Louisiana Digital Media Act (Louisiana Senate Bill 341), which seeks to stimulate growth in the technology sector by providing tax credits to digital media companies. Andy Wisdom served as the CEO for the next several years. Autodesk subsequently distributed 3ds max 4 with a TurboSquid add-on, and TurboSquid received its first venture investment in April 2001.ĭisagreement over many aspects of the company led to the departure of Tom Avgikos, and initial CEO David Avgikos, and a complete separation from Digimation in 2002. Backed by angel funding, the company announced the new marketplace at the SIGGRAPH conference in August 2000. In April 2000, the two groups officially merged to form TurboSquid. They officially began software development of a marketplace in 1999 under the brand iPublish.Īt the same time Digimation, a New Orleans company founded by David Avgikos, was working on a similar project called 3dBay.
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During that time the pair began researching ways to sell or license unused 3D models. TurboSquid was founded by Matt Wisdom and Andy Wisdom, who were partners in Chimera Digital Imaging, a company that produced 3D animation for television commercials from 1994 to 2000.
