American - Businessman | September 21, 1984 -
Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.
Kevin Systrom
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I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.
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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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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.
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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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The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.
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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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Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.
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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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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.
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Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network.
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I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.
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