Alan Schaaf

Alan Schaaf
Alan at The 7th Annual Crunchies Awards 2014 in San Francisco.
Born (1987-10-21) October 21, 1987
Granville, Ohio
Nationality American
Alma mater Ohio University
Occupation Founder of Imgur
Years active 2009-Present
Known for Imgur
Net worth $10M [1]
Parent(s)

Ulysses Grant Schaaf (father, 1903-1999)

Lola Faye Schaaf (mother, 1911-2001)
Website http://imgur.com

Alan Schaaf (born October 21, 1987) is an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of the image-sharing app and website Imgur.

Early life

Schaaf was born to Ulysses Grant and Lola Faye Schaaf in Granville, Ohio. He attended Ohio University and received a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Career

Schaaf founded Imgur when he was an undergraduate at Ohio University in 2009. Imgur started as a simple image-sharing website and evolved into the largest image-sharing community in the world with more than 150 million monthly active users in 2015.[2] Under Schaaf's leadership, Imgur was bootstrapped and profitable for five years, scaling organically to millions of users before finally receiving $40 million in investment from Andreessen Horowitz in 2014.[3]

Imgur ranks among the top 50 sites in the world, and was called "the next big social network" by CNBC.[4] ComScore ranks Imgur as the website with the highest concentration of male millennial users on the internet, above Facebook and Twitter.[5]

Schaaf has previously given a TEDx Talk at TEDxWellington and spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt.

In 2015 Schaaf was listed as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "TheRichest - The World's Most Entertaining Site". 18 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "This Website Single-Handedly Keeps the Internet Fun, but Most People Don't Know It Exists". Mic. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  3. ↑ "Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz". Bits Blog. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Meet Imgur and what it sees as advertising's future". CNBC. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  5. ↑ "Imgur Ramps Up Advertising With Promoted Posts As Brands Hope To Mine Internet For Millennials, Men And Memes". International Business Times. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  6. ↑ "In Photos: 2015 30 Under 30: Alan Schaaf, 27". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
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