How Unsplash Grew From 10 Free Photos to 11 Billion Monthly Views |

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When his company was running low on cash in 2013, Unsplash founder and CEO Mikael Cho and his team set up a basic website that offered 10 free HD photos that anyone could download.

That site — Unsplash.com — now receives more downloads than all of the major stock photography companies combined, including Getty, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock.