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
Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us.
I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.
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.
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.
The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive.
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.
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.
On average, an e-commerce client who evolves into a premier enterprise client increases their annual spend by 10 times in that first year.
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.
I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.
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.
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.
It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.
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.