Brazilian - Businessman | March 4, 1986 -
People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.
Mike Krieger
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People want to share photos with only their friends and loved ones.
PeopleLovedFriendsWantShare
The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.
KnowledgeSpaceSearchProblemYou
Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.
BuildingSomeoneWithoutSomething
When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.
YouStudentWayProjectOverFinish
Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
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Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.
AgeEmpathyPeopleStartKeyDesign
Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.
LearningVisionPeopleLookingImage
In 2010, the night before we launched 'Instagram v1', my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its first day in the wild.
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Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios.
WorkTeamEngineersNewPayWell
By 2013, we had 200 million people using 'Instagram' every month and over 20 billion photos stored.
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Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.
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