Alan Schaaf Quotes

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

YouTube is my first love.

Instagram is a personal subscription. It's like your own personal magazine. It's like doing a photo shoot for no money, which is cool.

I will always come back to YouTube because that's where I started.

I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.

Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.

It's fun to be around people who don't think I'm creepy for making videos in my bedroom on the Internet.

If you have a YouTube account, you essentially have your own channel, and anybody who subscribes, or any of your friends on YouTube, they're your audience.

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.

I enjoy YouTube like everyone else.

YouTube is amazing because you really don't have to wait for anyone to showcase your work. Social media in general is like that. People can connect with it all over the world.

Since developing my blog and YouTube channel in 2013, Little Lights of Mine, I've connected with some of the most passionate people around the world.

I love Instagram and Facebook.

Vine was like no other creative rush I ever had. In minutes, you could conceive an idea, shoot it and send it off to millions.

YouTube opened up a lot of doors.