Kevin Systrom Quotes

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Kevin Systrom

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 21, 1984

If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

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The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.

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In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

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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.

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When you're introducing a mobile app, you look around and say, 'We could be doing 15 different things, but how do we communicate to someone why they would want to download and even sign up for this thing?'

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Great products sell themselves.

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Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'

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I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

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It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

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It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.

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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.

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'Instagram' Direct is a really interesting feature because it's grown significantly since we launched it. People continue to use it to communicate more privately.

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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.

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I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

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If you focus on producing a great experience for anyone, that's how you get big.

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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.

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I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

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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.

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I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.

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Brands, musicians, and public figures were among the first to embrace video on 'Instagram', and we've been impressed with how brands have extended their reach with video ads.

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