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" 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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" 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

" 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. "

" To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jon Oringer

Choose

Professional

" I started Shutterstock out of my own need. I'd previously created a few software companies, and each time, I struggled to find affordable images to use on my websites. "

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

" 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. "

" Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jon Oringer

Money

World

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

" We significantly increased our global presence in 2014. During the year, we expanded the number of languages in which we serve customers to a total of 20. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Jon Oringer

You

Time

" 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. "

" In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago? "

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

" We continually hear from our engaged customer base that Shutterstock's content is a true differentiator, given not only the size of the library but also the quality and diversity of the images we offer. "

" I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution. "

" Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it. "