Alan Schaaf Quotes

Alan Schaaf

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 21, 1987

The reason I want to be able to teleport is that I don't like waiting around. It's one of my pet peeves. I also don't like traveling, because I don't like sitting on a plane for six hours, doing nothing, essentially wasting time. You know what would be awesome? Bam, I'm in New York.

Alan Schaaf

The successful entrepreneurs that I see have two characteristics: self-awareness and persistence. They're able to see problems in their companies through their self-awareness and be persistent enough to solve them.

Alan Schaaf

Not only do Imgurians get the opportunity to find the content that they love but also serve up their favorite content to others who visit their profiles.

Alan Schaaf

Over the years, the Internet has been going down the path of becoming a more personalized experience.

Alan Schaaf

I'm against the SOPA act, and Imgur, as a company, is against it.

Alan Schaaf

There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company.

Alan Schaaf

We've talked with over a dozen VCs and angel investors over the years. But we've never clicked with any of them until Andreessen. During our initial meeting, we were bouncing ideas around about where Imgur could go.

Alan Schaaf

When I was in high school and college, I'd always been into websites, and when you'd read about sites and the companies and people behind them, they were always in Silicon Valley. This one's in Mountain View, this one's in Palo Alto. They're all right here. I knew I wanted to move out here, whether it was to work at Google or some other company.

Alan Schaaf

It's not always about 'Can you do the job?' It's about 'Can you fit in with the team?'

Alan Schaaf

Imgur isn't about following a celebrity, and it's not about following a person in real life. You don't have to build up a massive following and use that to get your distribution.

Alan Schaaf

If SOPA were to pass, Imgur would not be able to exist. We survive on user-generated content. It would be impossible for us to police the amount of traffic we get for what is or isn't copyrighted material. It's just not possible.

Alan Schaaf

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

Alan Schaaf

I don't think display advertising is the future of advertising.

Alan Schaaf

I don't have much time to read. I'm more of a problem solver. I'll have an idea or a problem, and I'll learn what's necessary in order to do the idea or solve the problem. If I need to read a book, then I will, but it usually comes down to researching on the Internet and reading blog posts.

Alan Schaaf

GIFs work because the punch line is instantaneous. It's entirely different from almost any other form of content on the Internet, which takes time to consume.

Alan Schaaf

Imgur offers a rare place for people to express themselves in a real way without the fear of social judgment. Everyone has an equal chance of sharing their story to millions of people because it's not about who you are but about the quality of your content.

Alan Schaaf

As long as we continue to bring in more traffic, I'm much more concerned with building a good user experience and developing tools that will help grow the Imgur community of users.

Alan Schaaf

How do I find someone for a position I've never worked with - or worked under, even? I feel like I'm not qualified to make a lot of these decisions.

Alan Schaaf

'Change' is seen as a dirty word, but personally, I'm searching for it.

Alan Schaaf

Being bootstrapped is great. You own 100 percent of it. But the downside is that you aren't able to move as fast as you want.

Alan Schaaf