I read about the C.E.O and co-founder of Instagram (Kevin Systrom) on Business
Insider.
Kevin grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, northeastern
United States.
He started practicing computer programming after his primary
school and he studied Management Science and Engineering in the university but
his passion for programming continued as he went along.
He interned at Odeo (a company founded in 2005 by Evan
Williams) which later turned into Twitter while he was in the university. He
worked in Google, Nextstop and kept going with his passion till he met some
investors from Base line Ventures and Andresen Horowitz who invested in his
passion. At this time he invited Mike Krieger (the co-founder and technical
lead) to join him.
The two of them created a product called burbn (a check-in app), after going through different
procedures, they birthed Instagram and
made photo sharing
the major feature of the app. Kevin Systrom gave a reason
for starting Instagram when he said “Instagram came from a realization that
people didn’t like our first product” he said people felt the first product was
complicated.
Facebook acquired the photo sharing app for $1billion in
2012 in a cash and stock deal value.
Now, what they started as 2 friends has grown so much that
more than 70 million photos and videos are shared each day (including my own
o).
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