Photos of garbage or ( full clothed ) hoi polloi posing with fruit are big business . Stock photo sites , which provideimagesfor news show system , web log , incarnate campaigns and all fashion of low - budget advertizing , have been growing for years . AndShutterstock , founded in 2003 by Jonathan Oringer , has expanded from host 30,000 of Oringer ’s own picture to distributing about 28 million license photos / illustrations / videos . And all those cats riding merry - go - round have made Oringer abillionaire .
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Shutterstock , which went public last October , use a different social organisation than other stock web site like Getty . Instead of owning all of the photos itself , Shutterstock contracts with photographers who keep the rights to their photos and get paid when their photos are downloaded by Shutterstock ’s 750,000 customers . cost array from $ 29 for two photos to a year of 25 photos a day for $ 2,400 . So far the company has ante up out about $ 150 million to its contributors . Silicon Alley , populated by the ever - expanding radical of net inauguration in Manhattan , will most likely raise other billionaires , but it ’s surprising that all the social and Modern medium founders got beat to first by the guy who sells the unintentionally erotic , posed beach volleyball photograph . Actually , it ’s not that surprising . [ BloombergviaPetaPixel ]
double credit entry : Shutterstock / James Peragine
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