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. ”

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. ”

Honestly, I could care less about business development. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

I'm probably most proud of the fact that we are bootstrapped and that we are able to do not just the typical Silicon Valley startup thing. We are basically throwing away all the typical conventions of other startups. ”

Ultimately, you have to provide value to the user. ”

Entrepreneurship, to me, means that you're a psychopath. The world doesn't work in the way you want it to, and you have a vision for how it should work. Unlike everyone else, this isn't OK with you. You have to go out, against every possible odd, and do something about it. That's what makes you crazy. ”