Alan Schaaf

Alan Schaaf (born October 21, 1987) is an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and former CEO of the image sharing app and website Imgur.

Early life
Schaaf was born in Granville, Ohio. He attended Ohio University and received a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Career
Schaaf founded Imgur when he was an undergraduate at Ohio University in 2009. Imgur started as a simple image-sharing website and evolved into the largest image-sharing community in the world with more than 150 million monthly active users in 2015. Under Schaaf's leadership, Imgur was bootstrapped and profitable for five years, scaling organically to millions of users before receiving $40 million in investment from Andreessen Horowitz in 2014.

In 2015 Schaaf was listed as one of Forbes 30 Under 30.