Kevin Systrom Quotes

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.

My favorite app is, without a doubt, Instagram. It's such a fun way to share photos and life's captured moments with friends, family and fans.

Instagram rocks. I love it, and so do the youth I work with and study.

Instagram Stories. I am really excited about it. I think Instagram is such a great platform: It's so creative; it's so visual. It's an incredible way to experience the world through images, whether photo or video. I also think that our community is incredible, in the sense that it's such a passionate community connecting around shared interests.

I'm obsessed by Instagram.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

I'm pretty much on all social media, but Instagram is the coolest, and I use it the most because I take a lot of pictures and I like to post them, but I link them all to each one.

The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.

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

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

'Instagram' is definitely becoming a new entertainment source for people day after day.

Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'.

'Instagram' is great if you want to share photos, but you're not that technical. Or, if you're not interested in sharing publicly, 'Instagram' becomes a place where you can not only consume photos and videos from musicians, or whoever, but send them directly to your friends.

Our first product was Quicken, which is personal financial management on a PC. It had a tough start, and we ran some tracking surveys to understand who was using it. Half the users claimed to use it in some sort of office environment. We ignored that. I thought it was meaningless.

I don't check any Web sites daily, but I love Instagram.

It comes in a moment when I capture something happening, and I go, 'Oh, that would be great for Instagram. I should post it.' I know it's boring, but that's genuinely what I do.

Instagram is my favorite! It's interactive and a fun way to stay connected to my friends, family and fans. I love posting photos from family trips, property visits, previews of my collections, everything!

I love Instagram! I like LaLa Anthony and Rihanna's photos. They always have great photos.

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months.