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Masters of Scale

Kevin Systrom

Co-founder

Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram in 2010 with friend Mike Krieger. After only two years and with just 13 employees, Instagram sold to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock. Now Instagram has more than 800 million monthly active users, sharing 80 million photos on an average day.

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“If you don’t change the service, the world changes underneath you and you become less relevant. So the lesson is …when you change it, how do you keep it feeling simple?”

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