ThisLife protects and organizes your photos and videos in the cloud. All your photos and videos are gathered (from your hard drive, your phone, your social services, your photo sites) and organized into your private archive in the cloud. ThisLife allows you to search your private archive to find just the photos or videos you are looking for from your collection of 40,000+ moments.
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About Shutterfly, Inc.Shutterfly, Inc. is the leading manufacturer and digital retailer of high-quality personalized products and services offered through a family of lifestyle brands. For more information about Shutterfly, Inc. (SFLY), visit www.shutterflyinc.com. A live audio webcast of the fireside chat will be available to the public on the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.shutterflyinc.com. A fireside chat will be held from 9:05 AM ET to approximately 9:45 AM ET. An archived replay will be available for approximately two weeks following the event.
Non-GAAP net income per share was $3.45, compared to $2.57 in the fourth quarter of 2014. These non-GAAP financial measures include non-GAAP gross profit margin, non-GAAP operating income (loss) and operating margin, adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, and non-GAAP net income (loss) per share. GAAP net income per share was $3.57, compared to $2.51 in the fourth quarter of 2014. (1) Enterprise gross profit margin was 17.1% of net revenues, compared to 12.9% in the fourth quarter of 2014. GAAP net income was $131.1 million, compared to $99.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2014.
The conference access code is 2061002. The press release will be posted on the Shutterfly website at www.Shutterflyinc.com in the “Investor Relations” and “Press Center” sections. The webcast of the conference call will be available at www.Shutterflyinc.com in the “Investor Relations” section. To access the conference call, please dial (412) 317-6011 or (888) 317-6003. Jeffrey Housenbold, president and chief executive officer, and Mike Pope, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will host a conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss the company’s financial results and outlook at 2:00 PM PT (5:00 PM ET).
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He has also held the position of chief operating officer and chief financial officer at MarketTools, vice president at BearingPoint, president and chief operating officer at Network General, president and chief executive officer at DigitalThink, and chief financial officer and chairman of the audit committee at Dionex (acquired by Thermo Scientific). Brian Regan will transition his duties to Mike Pope and remain chief financial officer through November 6, 2015, after the filing of the 10-Q. Mr. Pope will join the Shutterfly Inc. team as senior vice president on October 27, 2015, and become chief financial officer on November 6, 2015. “Mike is a Silicon Valley veteran who has a successful track record of profitably growing public and private companies as both a chief financial officer and chief operating officer,” said Jeffrey Housenbold, president and chief executive officer of Shutterfly Inc. “His leadership, manufacturing and operational experience will be an asset to the Shutterfly Inc. team as we continue to scale beyond a billion dollars in revenue and deliver on our Shutterfly 3.0 vision.”Mr. Pope joins Shutterfly Inc. from Clean Power Finance, where he served as chief financial officer. Mr. Pope has a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.
We’ve heard a rumor that Shutterfly, the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, is set to acquire online photo sharing and storage startup ThisLife. Earlier this year, the company announced the acquisition of bankrupt-ridden Kodak’s online photo-sharing platform for $23.8 million. While there is no shortage of cloud-based photo storage apps (including Shutterfly), ThisLife’s interface is pretty slick compared to some of the dinosaurs in the space. Shutterfly picked up online stationery company Tiny Prints; bought Nexco, which became Shutterfly share sites (private photo-sharing networks); and acquired Photoccino, which had developed 29 algorithms for sorting through photos. Shutterfly may be interested in the the company’s algorithm, and engineering and product talent.
ThisLife announced the launch of its online photo storage, management, and sharing service at Amazon re: Invent last week. It’s also one of the first startups to use Amazon’s new Glacier data-archiving service in production, something that helps the company keep its prices down. In addition, they decided to ensure that the service can help its users organize their photos without too much hassle. Once uploaded, the service displays your images on a beautiful timeline that scrolls horizontally. A full account, the so-called Super Box, costs $6 per month and also lets you store up to 25,000 photos or 100GB.
Backed by $2.75 Million, ThisLife Aims to Organize Your Photo HistoryI’m not a parent. Oh, and obviously, there’s a built-in sharing function to send uploaded photos from ThisLife back out to your disparate apps, if you’re so inclined. The idea is, you’d be better off with all those photos in one place — in the cloud (of course). )Andrea and Matt Johnson, however, are parents, and they assure me that it’s crazy-making to organize the number of pictures they’ve taken of their child. And the app’s ever-learning facial-recognition algorithm uses your already-tagged Facebook photos to discern who exactly is in each photo.
Starter Plan (1,000 pictures or one hour of video), free; Adventure Plan (20,000 photos or ten hours of video), $8 monthly or $80 yearly; Family Plan (50,000 photos or 25 hours of video), $15 monthly or $150 yearly. As if that weren’t enough, the founders of ThisLife are parents who recognize that pictures are only as good as the stories they tell. Best part: ThisLife allows two people to connect with each account — so you don’t have to chase down your partner to send you pictures. You’ve got a Flip with video of your daughter’s first steps (somewhere), 998 photos on your iPhone, and your husband just emailed pics of the kids playing in the yard. Photo: Courtesy of ThisLife
Once photos are uploaded, ThisLife has a very robust facial recognition technology to identify people in various photos. ThisLife has a freemium subscription model for its service, allowing users to sign up and upload photos to start. ThisLife is built on the idea of having a single place to store and organize your photos. )Anyway, to reach a bigger audience, ThisLife has raised a $2.75 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group, with Madrona Managing Director Greg Gottesman joining its board. ThisLife quietly launched in 2010 as a cloud-based platform for storing and organizing all of a family’s photos in a single place.