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

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" Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how. "

" Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law. "

" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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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" 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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" 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. "

" As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web. "

" When a user signs up for Skillfeed, they get unlimited access to thousands of video courses and creative and technical skills, all as a part of one inexpensive monthly subscription. Instructors from around the world can apply to have their course from Skillfeed and earn money based on how much their courses are viewed. "

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" We believe PremiumBeat will accelerate our mission to make licensable music accessible to every creator. "

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" Anyone can contribute images, and we sell them to designers and agencies all over the world. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a pretty rough commute. In many ways, I think New York has a lot of things the West Coast doesn't have. "

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" I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily. "

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