Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: December 30, 1983
Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far..
I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans..
You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds ….
Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication….
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 comp….
The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately..
I have a pretty random life. I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job….
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….
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, th….
The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we'….
I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life..
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 te….
Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?.
There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways..
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 ….
People always told me photos have been done. My feeling was, these people are wrong..
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 min….
People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective..
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 sel….
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going..
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….