Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo
Speaker - Bruce Livingstone

"Creating Opportunities for Crowdsourcing"

Bruce Livingstone, Founder & CEO of iStockphoto.
Bruce Livingstone is the founder and CEO of iStockphoto. Born in Montreal, but raised in Calgary, Alberta, he is a serial entrepreneur who has started several businesses, including the still thriving Evolvs Media, a design firm, and Webcore Labs, which offers professional Linux Web hosting. Bruce got his start in design at Image Club Graphics, where he was a mail clerk, and learned design on his own time. When his job was replaced by a machine, Bruce proposed heading up an initiative to sell over the Internet. Company managers thought it was interesting, but were unsure it would work. Luckily, Bruce didn’t agree or forget.

A few years later, Bruce began iStockphoto by creating a Web site to share 1,600 of his own images. Today, iStockphoto is the world’s first, largest and most innovative community marketplace for digital imagery and video, with more than one million members worldwide and an ever-growing image and video collection, with images priced starting at $1 and video clips starting at $5. Bruce sold iStockphoto to Getty Images in February 2006, but remains at the helm of iStockphoto.com.

Speaking with Sean Mooney, Getty Images (Japan)
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