Jon Oringer

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Anyone can contribute images, and we sell them to designers and agencies all over the world.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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