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

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Kevin Systrom
Age: 40
Born: 1983
Born: December 30
Computer Scientist
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Entrepreneur
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In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
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Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
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Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.
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I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.
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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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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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Great products sell themselves.
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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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I actually think some of my best moments in life have been while I was with people from Instagram - whether it's super late nights getting a release out or being able to travel to places I'd never visited and meeting some of the most interesting people I've ever met.
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The world runs on luck.
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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.
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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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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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You need to fail in order to find the right solution.
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I really value passion for the product above experience.
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