Brazilian - Businessman | March 4, 1986 -
I think the biggest challenge over time is that we stay creative and making sure that we continue to launch awesome products that people love.
Mike Krieger
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In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.
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You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on.
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It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.
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Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.
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Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.
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Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.
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With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.
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I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
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My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
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Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.
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I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.
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