Kevin Systrom Quotes

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Entrepreneurship works on the apprenticeship model. The best way to learn how to be an entrepreneur is to start a company and seek the advice of a successful entrepreneur in the area in which you are interested. Or work at a startup for a few years to learn the ropes.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

When you start off with your first company, you are learning as part of the process and you make mistakes. The important thing is to recover quickly and learn from the experience.

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

I love building companies; I love making products.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.