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" Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way. "

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" I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands. "

Jon Oringer

Day

Over

Pictures

" While the scale of our library is certainly attractive to our users, equally important is the quality of the content we provide and our state-of-the-art processing operation that vets every single piece of content that's submitted to ensure only the most suitable content is included. "

" Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success. "

" I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot. "

Jon Oringer

Community

Shot

" The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on. "

" Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams. "

" Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in it and not distract the user from using the product they're trying to sell. "

" I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs. "

" It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage. "

" I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else. "

Jon Oringer

Trying

Cards

" The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive. "

Jon Oringer

Advertising

Best

" I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place. "

" The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job. "

" Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better. "

" By investing in diverse asset types from SD video to HD video to 4K video, we can satisfy the video needs of a wide array of users. "

" There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into. "

" To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings. "

" All businesses need images to sell their products and services. "

" Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging. "

" Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us. "

" I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first. "

" I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker. "

" At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning. "

" I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building. "

" We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription. "

" We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away. "

" We have a lot of customers in Japan, but they don't quite get the local content that they always need, so we want to encourage all of our product teams to start thinking globally. "

" Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor. "

" I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about. "

" Shutterstock has evolved from an image-based marketplace for small businesses to a much broader platform, with a large and expanding addressable market opportunity. "