Alan Schaaf (born October 21, 1987) is an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and former CEO of the image sharing app and website Imgur.
Alan Schaaf | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Ohio University |
Occupation | Founder of Imgur |
Years active | 2009–2022 |
Known for | Imgur |
Schaaf was born in Granville, Ohio. He attended Ohio University and received a bachelor's degree in computer science.[1]
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 receiving $40 million in investment from Andreessen Horowitz in 2014.[3]
In 2015 Schaaf was listed as one of Forbes 30 Under 30.[4]