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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'Instagram' is an app that only took 8 weeks to build and ship but was a product of over a year of work.

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All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

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The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

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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.

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'Instagram' is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos.

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It helps to see the world through a different lens, and that's what we wanted to do with Instagram. We wanted to give everyone the same feeling of discovering the world around you through a different lens.

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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

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I actually think some of my best moments in life have been while I was with people from Instagram - whether it's super late nights getting a release out or being able to travel to places I'd never visited and meeting some of the most interesting people I've ever met.

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Just so everyone knows, we're not a photo-sharing company. I don't see photos on 'Instagram' as art. They're much more about communication.

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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.

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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.

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Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

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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.

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I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

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The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.

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I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

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Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.

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People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.

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There are fun parts of running a startup and not so fun parts, and Facebook handles the not so fun parts, like infrastructure, spam, sales. The real questions are, how big can 'Instagram' get? Is it 400 million, or bigger? Can it be a viable business if it is that big? These are at the top of the list for everyone in Silicon Valley.

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