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Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom
American Businessman
Born: Sep 21, 1984
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Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen. Kevin Systrom
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I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track. Kevin Systrom
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Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world. Kevin Systrom
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People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way. Kevin Systrom
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I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life. Kevin Systrom
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When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again. Kevin Systrom
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I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy. Kevin Systrom
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The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately. Kevin Systrom
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Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network. Kevin Systrom
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Photos were seen as the most private type of content, and 'Instagram' really flipped that on its head and said photos can be really public. Kevin Systrom
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On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their 'Instagram' feed. What this is about is making sure that the 30 percent you see is the best 30 percent possible. Kevin Systrom
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If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us. Kevin Systrom
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'Instagram' can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that's true with 'WhatsApp,' and I think that will be true with things like Oculus. Kevin Systrom
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I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there. Kevin Systrom
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There are billions of dollars spent every year on traditional media. The majority of people are spending more time every day on the Internet, especially on mobile. You're starting to see a shift of that spend go to mobile, especially to things like 'Instagram'. Kevin Systrom
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A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell. Kevin Systrom
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I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it. Kevin Systrom
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As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law. Kevin Systrom
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One of the earliest requested features was to do premium filters where a brand could sponsor a filter. It's just not in our wheelhouse. It doesn't feel 'Instagram'-my in the way that the high-quality brand ads do. Kevin Systrom
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When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry. Kevin Systrom
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There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you. Kevin Systrom
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Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly. Kevin Systrom
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Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'. Kevin Systrom
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A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans. Kevin Systrom
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'Instagram' is definitely becoming a new entertainment source for people day after day. Kevin Systrom
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If you're a journalist, and you want to see live photos happening at any location in our system, you can simply type in the location, and up comes the page. Kevin Systrom
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