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The big picture in Silicon Alley

The lobby of the Empire State building is as spectacular as the view from the top, a marble and gold homage to the 1930s. Stepping out of the art deco elevator and into the 21st-floor offices of Shutterstock, an online marketplace for stock imagery, feels incongruous, like fast-forwarding 80 years.

The glamour is gone, replaced by minimalist white walls and glass cubicles. Everyone is wearing jeans and casual shirts apart from one male employee, dressed in a pink tutu for a party later that evening (it is, to be fair, fancy dress).

Like many chief executives, Jon Oringer has a corner office, but the only thing he could conceivably sit behind is a drum-kit. Welcome to start-up land.

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