Mike Krieger Quotes
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It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.
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Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
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In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.
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Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.
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I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.
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With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.
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I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
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Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.
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Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.
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My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
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Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.