Shutterstock, Inc.
A marketplace for licensed creative content, Shutterstock lets businesses, agencies, and individual creators buy and use stock photos, videos, music, and illustrations without hiring a photographer. Founder Jon Oringer launched it in 2003 after growing frustrated with pricey stock photo licensing — he bought a digital camera, shot 100,000 photos himself over six months, and used 30,000 of them as the company's first library. The name blends "shutter" (the camera part) with "stock" (the industry term for pre-made media).