Kevin Systrom quotes

Kevin Systrom is an American businessman and computer programmer, best known as the co-founder of Instagram. The popular photo-sharing app dramatically influenced the way people interact and share images online. He played a crucial role in Instagram’s growth before its acquisition by Facebook. Here are 21 of his quotes:

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. (Kevin Systrom)

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

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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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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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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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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.

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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

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Great products sell themselves.

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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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Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

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I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy. (Kevin Systrom)

A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

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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 run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it.

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I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

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People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.

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

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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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I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

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We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram. (Kevin Systrom)

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Photo: Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0

Occupation: American Businessman
Born: December 30, 1983
Quotes count: 21