Kevin Systrom Quotes
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Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.
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Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.
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I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.
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The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we're the only platform that continues to be successful in bringing people together in real life for these real relationships.
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People always told me photos have been done. My feeling was, these people are wrong.
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The best feature is less features.
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We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.
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On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.
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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.
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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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I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.
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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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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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Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?
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The world runs on luck.
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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. There's a reason we don't allow you to upload photos on the Web as albums. It's not about taking all these photos off your DSLR putting them into an album and sharing them with your family. It's not about that. It's about what are you up to right now out in the real world, how can you share that with everyone.
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The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.
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What's awesome about social media is you curate your own experience. That leads to the rise of niche celebrities, who are actually just as popular as mass celebrities, but because there's no incentive for traditional media to invest in them as celebrities, they find a home where people can follow them on Instagram.
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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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With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
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Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.
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I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.
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Obviously, being the CEO, there are a lot of eyes on what you do and what you post and how you post, and I think one of the challenges of Instagram in general is that, as we get bigger, there are just more voices in the room, more eyes on everyone's accounts.
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You need to find people that are drawn to the idea that you build, and they end up taking it and making it even better.
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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.
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You need to fail in order to find the right solution.
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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 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
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If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.
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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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