Latest Kevin Systrom Quotes from Interviews

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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?

  Kevin Systrom

  Becoming, Lucky, Enough

  "How Luck And Intuition Helped To Build Instagram". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 19, 2016.

• The world runs on luck.

  Kevin Systrom

  Running, Luck, World

  "How Luck And Intuition Helped To Build Instagram". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 19, 2016.

• Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

  Kevin Systrom

  Successful, Pumps, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

  Kevin Systrom

  Kids, Creating, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

  Kevin Systrom

  Government, Law, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  People, Appreciate, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

  Kevin Systrom

  Beautiful, Math, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

  Kevin Systrom

  Dark, Order, Jeans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, Way, Pushing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  Thinking, Cameras, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, People, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have a pretty random life. I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it.

  Kevin Systrom

  Running, Jobs, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

  Kevin Systrom

  Thinking, Adults, Teens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Beautiful, Stories, Instagram

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  Looks, Teens, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, Kids, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  Home, Media, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  Intimate Relationships, Media, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.

  Kevin Systrom

  Couple, Unique, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.

  Kevin Systrom

  Want, Instagram, Company

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.

  Kevin Systrom

  People, Shifting, Instagram

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I really value passion for the product above experience.

  Kevin Systrom

  Passion, Products, Values

  Source: www.businessinsider.com