Jon Oringer Quotes
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I've never been very flashy or high-profile.
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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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To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.
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To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
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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.
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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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We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.
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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.
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We believe PremiumBeat will accelerate our mission to make licensable music accessible to every creator.
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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.
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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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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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There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.
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Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.