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" 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. "
Jon Oringer
People
Content
Market
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" Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us. "
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Celebrity
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" I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could. "
Jon Oringer
Company
Going
Learn
" To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting. "
Jon Oringer
Human
Interesting
Always
" 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. "
Jon Oringer
Want
Feel
Move On
" 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
Find
Important
Tools
" Shutterstock's ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth. "
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Healthy
Growth
Ability
" I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place. "
Jon Oringer
Place
Talking
First
" 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. "
Jon Oringer
Learn
Want
Someone
" Anyone can contribute images, and we sell them to designers and agencies all over the world. "
Jon Oringer
Images
Contribute
World
" Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams. "
Jon Oringer
Think
Solution
Problems
" Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better. "
Jon Oringer
Even
Better
Impossible
" As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago? "
Jon Oringer
You
Question
Employees
" You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation. "
Jon Oringer
You
Mistakes
Failure
" In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves. "
Jon Oringer
Make
Days
Work
" 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. "
Jon Oringer
School
Computers
High School
" 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. "
Jon Oringer
Who
People
Job
" I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that. "
Jon Oringer
Help
Me
Space
" Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project. "
Jon Oringer
Organization
You
People
" There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism. "
Jon Oringer
School
Technology
Talent
" On average, an e-commerce client who evolves into a premier enterprise client increases their annual spend by 10 times in that first year. "
Jon Oringer
Year
Average
E-Commerce
" The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you. "
Jon Oringer
People
Business
Care
" I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker. "
Jon Oringer
New
Valley
San Francisco
" I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot. "
Jon Oringer
Up
Community
Shot
" I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs. "
Jon Oringer
Meeting
Proud
Inspire
" We sell to businesses who sell other stuff, so we're just going to concentrate on doing that. "
Jon Oringer
Sell
Other
Just
" 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
" There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves. "
Jon Oringer
Experts
People
Out
" Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging. "
Jon Oringer
Relationship
Serve
Helping
" Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense. "
Jon Oringer
Looking
Side
Our
" We recognized early on that media consumption was evolving and customers were looking for moving images to include as part of their advertising campaigns, website designs and corporate presentations. "
Jon Oringer
Advertising
Looking
Media