Kevin Systrom Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Home, Media, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  People, Appreciate, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.

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  Thinking, Phones, People

  "Kevin Systrom Says Comparing Instagram to Photography Is Like ‘Comparing Twitter to Microsoft Word’". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. April 4, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Running, Jobs, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Couple, Unique, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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."

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  Beautiful, Math, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The world runs on luck.

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  Running, Luck, World

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

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• When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

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  Thinking, College, Class

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• 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.

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  Dark, Order, Jeans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.

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  Thinking, Media, Instagram

  "This 27-Year-Old Built One Of The Fastest Growing Apps Ever -- Without Spending A Dime On Marketing". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.

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  Reason Why, Instagram, Following

  "Instagram boss on Justin Bieber, Android and why he doesn't fear Facebook filters". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Successful, Pumps, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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?

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  Becoming, Lucky, Enough

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

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• With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

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  Focus, Instagram, Tense

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• I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

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  Nuts, Cameras, Grew Up

  "Kevin Systrom Says Comparing Instagram to Photography Is Like ‘Comparing Twitter to Microsoft Word’". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. April 04, 2012.

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• I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

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  Believe, Successful, Entrepreneur

  "Kevin Systrom Says Comparing Instagram to Photography Is Like ‘Comparing Twitter to Microsoft Word’". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. April 4, 2012.

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

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  Want, Instagram, Company

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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.

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  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

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  Moving, Thinking, Becoming

  "This 27-Year-Old Built One Of The Fastest Growing Apps Ever -- Without Spending A Dime On Marketing". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• I really value passion for the product above experience.

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  Passion, Products, Values

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• People always told me photos have been done. My feeling was, these people are wrong.

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  People, Feelings, Done

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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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  Squares, Filters, Photoshop

  "This 27-Year-Old Built One Of The Fastest Growing Apps Ever -- Without Spending A Dime On Marketing". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Real, People, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Beautiful, Stories, Instagram

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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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  Government, Law, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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