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. – Kevin Systrom
Our goal is to allow people to use whatever app they want to get photos into ‘Instagram’. – Kevin Systrom
I’ve always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful. – Kevin Systrom
The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately. – Kevin Systrom
Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly. – Kevin Systrom
It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to ‘Instagram,’ but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier. – Kevin Systrom
There are billions of dollars spent every year on traditional media. The majority of people are spending more time every day on the Internet, especially on mobile. You’re starting to see a shift of that spend go to mobile, especially to things like ‘Instagram’. – Kevin Systrom
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read. – Kevin Systrom
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. – Kevin Systrom
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. – Kevin Systrom
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. – Kevin Systrom
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. – Kevin Systrom
If it’s one thing we do really well as a company, it’s that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us. – Kevin Systrom
Just so everyone knows, we’re not a photo-sharing company. I don’t see photos on ‘Instagram’ as art. They’re much more about communication. – Kevin Systrom
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. – Kevin Systrom