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" Equally important to having the right content is providing the proper tools for the users so they can quickly find the images and videos they need. "
Jon Oringer
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" As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web. "
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Web
" The growing demand for content across our platform delivers bigger payouts to our contributor base and encourages them to upload fresh content to Shutterstock, further facilitating the network effect of our business. "
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" Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally. "
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" On average, an e-commerce client who evolves into a premier enterprise client increases their annual spend by 10 times in that first year. "
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" Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Skills
Creative
" I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker. "
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New
Valley
San Francisco
" Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups. "
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Thought
Kind
" I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building. "
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Day
" Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge. "
Jon Oringer
Picture
Paid
Someone
" Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting. "
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Time
First Time
Interesting
" 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. "
Jon Oringer
Asset
Video
Satisfy
" We sell to businesses who sell other stuff, so we're just going to concentrate on doing that. "
Jon Oringer
Sell
Other
Just
" Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start. "
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Rest
Skills
Start
" As I saw more and more people buying the images that were happy buyers, and people selling the images that were happy with how the market was pricing them, I started to get the sense this could be the go-to place for businesses to get the images they need. "
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Selling
Need
People
" We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away. "
Jon Oringer
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Done
" At around 50 employees, you get to the point where you can't see what's going on all the time. So you start to have weekly check-ins, and you have days that go by without knowing exactly what's going on. "
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You
Time
Go
" I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot. "
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Up
Community
Shot
" 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. "
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People
Content
Market
" Rex has photographers around the world - it's a higher touch business: there are a lot of relationships involved. If you throw an event, there are certain photographers you've worked with before and you want there. "
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You
World
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" I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about. "
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Independence
I Think
" Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time. "
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Want
Feel
Move On
" There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves. "
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Experts
People
Out
" Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types. "
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Content
New
" In high school, I used to teach guitar and fix computers by the hour. I was looking for some way to make some cash, so I actually learned how to play guitar in order to try to teach it. "
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Computers
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" Instagram is great for us because it's encouraging people to shoot more stuff. Some of those snappers will become professional, and they may choose to sell their photos through us. "
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" 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. "
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Content
Start
" 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. "
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" I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs. "
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