Kevin Systrom Quotes

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Kevin Systrom

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 21, 1984

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

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

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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'.

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Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'.

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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.

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'Instagram' is definitely becoming a new entertainment source for people day after day.

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People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.

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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.

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Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.

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You can build a filter app get people really excited, but the way to keep them is to provide long-term value. Long-term value is, in fact, being its own network.

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'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months.

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I'm a huge fan of what 'Hipstamatic' is doing and all they've accomplished.

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Our goal is to allow people to use whatever app they want to get photos into 'Instagram'.

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Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood.

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Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.

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A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.

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I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

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There are a lot of apps that are fun to use - they're utility apps; they're fine. But there are a fraction of apps that are in the cream of the crop. You just need to be in the cream of the crop to get noticed.

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I don't foresee a future where people don't have some sort of phone that's like a computer. I don't foresee a future where those phones don't have cameras in them. That spells a future where smartphones are the status quo. You have to ask yourself how you allow people to communicate what's in their lives.

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Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.

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