Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

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.

When I was a student, I was working at the technology call center, where students call in if they can't get their email to work or something. A minimum-wage kind of job.

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

We want people on the Internet to go to Imgur for their viral image fix. And what's so awesome about images vs. videos is that instant gratification.

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.