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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 9)
SM: What do you think of SmugMug? It is very popular. JH: It is popular for us because we are in the valley. When you look at the grand scheme of things, they are still a relatively small company with about $10M in revenue. I think what they have done well is they said in
Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 8)
SM: Why didn’t Flickr elect to work with you? JH: At the time we were competing with Yahoo Photos, and Flickr chose a small company who is producing product as their outsource manufacturer. That small company has signed up a number of sites who in the early days thought they were competing with Shutterfly. They
Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 6)
SM: What are your margins on the photo book business? JH: We do not disclose margins specifically. What we report to Wall Street are prints which are all prints from wallet size to the 20×30 pictures, and personalized products and services, and that’s how cards, calendars and photo books are counted. What we have said
Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 4)
SM: Your vision was to move beyond the traditional print model, and rather be the center of a lifestyle. JH: I also saw us as building a personal publishing platform. Yes, we have consumers doing all the beautiful cards, books and calendars, but we also have lots of small businesses, charities, schools, non-profits, jewelry manufacturers,
Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 3)
SM: Before we move on with your Shutterfly story, can you shift gears for a second and tell us the history of Shutterfly? JH: Shutterfly was founded in 1999 by two employees of Silicon Graphics – Eva Manolis and Dan Baum. Eva was a product person and Dan was a technology person. They teamed up
Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing: Overview
Photo sharing is one of the top segments and in the US the top 10 photo sharing sites draws around 50 million visitors each month. In this series, we will evaluate the category against the web 3.0 framework. Photo sharing is gaining in popularity fueled by its online community features, which allow millions of users
