Jon Oringer Quotes
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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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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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To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive.
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