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Alan Schaaf Wiki Biography

Alan Schaaf was born on the 21st October 1987, in Granville, Ohio USA, and is an entrepreneur. He rose to fame as the founder and CEO of the online image sharing website and app entitled Imgur, which was launched at the beginning of 2009. In 2015 Schaaf was listed as one of Forbes 30 Under 30, which each year identifies 600 most inventive and successful people around the world. Schaaf has been active in the internet business since 2009.

How much is the net worth of Alan Schaaf? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his net worth is as much as $10 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017. Imgur is the major source of Schaaf’s net worth.

To begin with, the boy was raised in Granville by his parents Lola Faye Schaaf and Ulysses Grant Schaaf. Alan became interested in computer technologies while studying at high school. Subsequently, he majored in computer science at Ohio University and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 2009.

While still a university student, he launched a free file-hosting service for images entitled Imgur. Schaaf not only offered free hosting of images for millions of users daily, but made it possible to gather a commentary-driven social community. As of the data given in 2015, he has managed to gather more than 150 million active users of Imgur, considerably enhancing his net worth in the process, as it should be noted that the site is maintained by advertising and merchandising.

In the autumn of 2012, Imgur presented a gallery of user uploaded images, which functions as a public gallery of the site and provides a comment and evaluation function. In the middle of 2013, Alan published his first content creation tool: the Imgur Meme Generator. There one can create simple macros, and a gallery with Meme templates can be viewed. The official mascot of the site is the Imguraffe, a combination of the components Imgur and Giraffe.

In 2014, the company received $40 million in investment from company Andreessen Horowitz. Currently, Imgur is listed as one of 50 most popular sites in the world alongside such networking sites as Twitter and Facebook. Imgur is the major source of Alan Schaaf’s net worth.

In addition to this, Schaaf has been giving motivational speeches at TechCrunch Disrupt and TEDxWellington. He has also been seen in many articles online, as well as in newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and many others.

Finally, in the personal life of Alan Schaaf, he does not reveal much about his private life. He is probably still single, as there are not even any rumours of romantic associations.

Wikipedia “Best Bootstrapped Startup” at the TechCrunch “Crunchies” Awards (2013) “Webby awards for Best Social Media and Best Community Website” (Imgur – 2015) $10 million $100 Thousand 1987-10-21 Alan Schaaf Net Worth American Businessman Entrepreneur Founder and CEO of the image-sharing app and website “Imgur” Lola Faye Schaaf Ohio University producer Ulysses Grant Schaaf

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