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Jon Oringer Quotes

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

– Jon Oringer

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

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

– Jon Oringer

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

– Jon Oringer

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

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

– Jon Oringer

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

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

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

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.

– Jon Oringer

I’ve never been very flashy or high-profile.

– Jon Oringer

When I started Shutterstock, I tried to get people access to big events. It’s very hard to keep up, to publish them quick, and to get the right photographers.

– Jon Oringer

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

– Jon Oringer

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

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

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

We sell to businesses who sell other stuff, so we’re just going to concentrate on doing that.

– Jon Oringer

I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy.

– Jon Oringer

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

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

– Jon Oringer

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

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

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

– Jon Oringer

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

– Jon Oringer

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.

– Jon Oringer

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.

– Jon Oringer

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.

– Jon Oringer

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

– Jon Oringer

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.

– Jon Oringer

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

– Jon Oringer

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