Alan Schaaf Quotes

Alan Schaaf

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 21, 1987

We're not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos, and Instagram is for photos. You wouldn't put a filter on a meme; you'd put a filter on top of a photo that came from your camera.

Alan Schaaf

If a whole bunch of users want a specific feature, and we think that feature is pretty cool, too, that that's just what we'll do.

Alan Schaaf

Imgur has always been profitable right from the very beginning, and the only time I ever had to spend money on it was for the initial domain name because as soon as I released it, people liked it so much that they were donating, and so Imgur survived for the first six months just purely on donations.

Alan Schaaf

I ran a profitable boostrapped company for five years, then raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz.

Alan Schaaf

People can express themselves better with images than just text, so they communicate more this way.

Alan Schaaf

If you're even on the fence about hiring someone, that person is a no. You have to feel it in your gut.

Alan Schaaf

The only thing that matters on Imgur is the quality of the content.

Alan Schaaf

Revenue is not where the focus of the company is at. We are focused on pushing out cool products like our analytics.

Alan Schaaf

We want to be the best place on the Internet. That's where the focus is at.

Alan Schaaf

I'm proud that I've been able to attract an incredible team to work with me.

Alan Schaaf

Imgurians increasingly live on their mobile devices, and we wanted to make it as easy as possible for them to browse and discuss Imgur's content wherever and whenever they want.

Alan Schaaf

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

Alan Schaaf

If there is a viral video on the Internet, you know it's on YouTube. You can search for it, find it, see the view count, and then take that link and share it with whomever you want. That's what we are doing for images.

Alan Schaaf

We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.

Alan Schaaf

We try hard to provide the best user experience possible, and that means the best ads possible, so we work with the brands to come up with the best images.

Alan Schaaf

The Imgur community, as a whole, is generally a lot more positive and a lot more funny than other communities.

Alan Schaaf

Ultimately, you have to provide value to the user.

Alan Schaaf

It's gotten more open and easy to create a business on the Internet. That's a really awesome thing for entrepreneurs and for the world.

Alan Schaaf

In many ways, products are a reflection of their founders, and I consider myself a geek. But aside from that, Imgur just organically evolved into the epicenter of geek culture.

Alan Schaaf

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.

Alan Schaaf