Top 82 Quotes by Jon Oringer

We have a lot of customers in Japan, but they don't quite get the local content that they always need, so we want to encourage all of our product teams to start thinking globally.

Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.

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

I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.

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.

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

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.

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

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

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