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Kevin Systrom is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Instagram, along with Mike Krieger.
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business · American computer programmer and entrepreneur (born 1983) · computer scientist · engineer · entrepreneur · also Kevin Systrom, Systrom
Born 30 December 1983 · Q10314243
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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.
Weekends didn’t exist. Mike and I set up an alarm on our phones if the servers were overloaded and went down, and that went off every four or five hours. Then as we grew, it went off every hour, or every 15 minutes. To this day, I have a Pavlovian response to that alarm: simultaneous nausea and anxiety. But it was also a sign of growth, which is a great problem to have. Now it’s different problems: what do we work on, what’s our strategy, how do we fend off competitors?
“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.”
“Weekends didn’t exist. Mike and I set up an alarm on our phones if the servers were overloaded and went down, and that went off every four or five hours. Then as we grew, it went off every hour, or every 15 minutes. To this day, I have a Pavlovian response to that alarm: simultaneous nausea and anxiety. But it was also a sign of growth, which is a great problem to have. Now it’s different problems: what do we work on, what’s our strategy, how do we fend off competitors?”
“we got to pair up with a juggernaut of a company that understands how to grow, understands how to build a business, has one of the best, if not the best, management team in tech and we got to use them as our resource”
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“you can trace the roots of every feature anyone has in their app, somewhere in the history of technology”
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Yahoo: Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom skewers Mark Zuckerberg, saying Meta starved his business after buying it for $1 billion over a decade ago
Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom launched Artifact, an AI-powered news app, on the App Store and Google Play
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It was announced that Kevin Systrom resigned from Instagram
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Kevin Systrom married Nicole Systrom (née Schuetz), founder and CEO of clean-energy investment firm Sutro Energy Group, in Napa, California
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In February 2016, Kevin Systrom met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where they discussed the power of images in uniting people "across borders, cultures and generations".
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The magazine ranked Kevin Systrom as a billionaire with an estimated net worth of US$1
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On October 31, 2016, Kevin Systrom married Nicole Systrom (née Schuetz), founder and CEO of clean-energy investment firm Sutro Energy Group, in Napa, California.
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Kevin Systrom was listed in the Forbes 30 "Under 30" list under the "Social/Mobile category
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VentureBeat: Facebook’s opening price values Instagram at $1.27B and Kevin Systrom at $506M
A large sum at that time for a company that had 13 employees
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Kevin Systrom co-founded the photo-sharing and, later, video-sharing social networking service Instagram with Mike Krieger in San Francisco, California
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Studied at Stanford University (2006).
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With a bachelor's degree in management science and engineering
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Born 1983-12-30.
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