Kevin Systrom Quotes
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As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.
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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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'Instagram' is definitely becoming a new entertainment source for people day after day.
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I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.
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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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I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.
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A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.
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'Instagram' doesn't exist in a vacuum. We're not a bunch of siloed individuals. It's a bunch of people coming together on topics, fashion, you know, youthful teens, creatives, photographers, foodies, everyone coming together and building a community around the things they love, communicating visually.
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Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.
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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. Someone who does this wonderfully well is Lena Dunham.
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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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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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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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There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.
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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 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.