Jon Oringer
Jon Oringer
Jon Oringer is an American programmer, photographer, and business executive best known as the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, a stock media and editing tools provider headquartered in New York City. Oringer started his career while a college student in the 1990s, when he invented "one of the Web’s first pop-up blockers." He went on to found about ten small startups that used a subscription method to sell "personal firewalls, accounting software, cookie blockers, trademark managers," and other small programs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 May 1974
CountryUnited States of America
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In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin.
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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.
In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves.
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Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.
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