Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom is an American entrepreneur and programmer, best known as the co‑founder and CEO of Instagram, an online mobile photo, video sharing application. This social networking service for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone that allow users to apply a filter to a photo and share it on the service or on other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr. In 2013, Systrom was listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 list under the Social/Mobile category. Together with Mike...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 December 1983
CityHolliston, NY
CountryUnited States of America
With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.
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.
Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.
Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.
Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.
We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.
I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.
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.
Great products sell themselves.
I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."
I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.