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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 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. 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.
Imgur ranks among the top 50 sites in the world, and was called "the next big social network" by CNBC. ComScore ranks Imgur as the website with the highest concentration of male millennial users on the internet, above Facebook and Twitter.
In 2015 Schaaf was listed as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30.
