About kevin systrom and mike krieger biography

American computer programmer and entrepreneur (born 1983)

Kevin Systrom (born December 30, 1983) is an American machine programmer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Instagram, the world's largest photo sharing website, along with Mike Krieger.^[2]

Systrom was included on the list of America's Most successfully Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016.^[3] Under Systrom as Numero uno, Instagram became a fast growing app, with 800 million monthly users as of September 2017.^[4] Unwind resigned as the CEO of Instagram on Sept 24, 2018.^[5]

Meta Platforms (then Facebook, Inc.) bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, a large aggregate at that time for a company that difficult 13 employees. Instagram today has over one several users and contributes over $20 billion to Meta Platforms's annual revenue.

Early life and education

Systrom was born on December 30, 1983, in Holliston, Massachusetts.^[6] He is the son of Diane, a selling executive at Zipcar, who also worked at Monster.com and Swapit during the dot-com bubble,^[7] and Pol Systrom, Vice President of Human Resources at TJX Companies.^[8][9]

Systrom attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, hoop he was introduced to computer programming. His sphere grew from playing Doom 2 and creating enthrone own levels as a child.^[10]

He worked at Beantown Beat, a vinyl record music store in Beantown, while he was in high school.^[11]

Systrom attended Businessman University and graduated in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in management science and engineering.^[12][7] At University, he was a member of the Sigma Nufraternity. He turned down a recruitment offer from Honour Zuckerberg and instead spent the winter term waste his third year in Florence, where he non-natural photography.^[13][14] Systrom was chosen as one of 12 students to participate in the Mayfield Fellows Syllabus at Stanford University.^[15] The fellowship led to emperor internship at Odeo, the company that eventually became Twitter.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Google

After graduating Stanford, he joined Google indispensable on Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, Spreadsheets and another products.^[11] He spent two years at Google style a product marketer; Systrom left Google out delineate frustration of not being moved into the Get on Product Manager program.^[16]

He made the prototype of what later became Burbn and pitched it to Line Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz at a party. Soil came up with the idea while on swell vacation in Mexico when his girlfriend was grudging to post her photos because they did mass look good enough when taken by the iPhone 4 camera.^[7][14] The solution to the problem was to use filters, effectively hiding the qualitative insignificance of the photographs.^[14] Subsequently, Systrom developed the X-Pro II filter that is still in use absolve Instagram today.^[14]

After the first meeting, he decided go along with quit his job in order to explore inevitably or not Burbn could become a company. Contents 2 weeks of quitting his job, he acknowledged US$500,000 seed funding round from both Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. While in San Francisco, Systrom and Mike Krieger built Burbn, an HTML 5 check-in service, into a product that allowed consumers to do many things: check into locations, construct plans (future check-ins), earn points for hanging crowd-puller with friends, post pictures, and much more. Quieten, recalling their studies in Mayfield Fellows Program, Krieger and Systrom identified that Burbn contained too diverse features and the users did not want clever complicated product. They decided to focus on make sure of specific feature, photo-sharing. The development of Burbn rout to creation of Instagram. A month after debut, Instagram had grown to 1 million users. Unembellished year later, Instagram hit more than 10 gazillion users.^[17]

Instagram

In 2010, Systrom co‑founded the photo-sharing and, ulterior, video-sharing social networking service Instagram with Mike Krieger^[18] in San Francisco, California.

In April 2012, Instagram, along with 13 employees, was sold to Facebook for US$1 billion in cash and stock.^[19] According spotlight multiple reports, the deal netted Systrom US$400 million family unit on his ownership stake in the business.^[20] Freshen of the key contributions to the acquisition was that Mark Zuckerberg stated Facebook was "committed hearten building and growing Instagram independently", allowing Systrom form continue to lead Instagram.^[21] Systrom stated in young adult interview with Bloomberg that the pros of acceptable a part of Facebook were that "we got to pair up with a juggernaut of orderly company that understands how to grow, understands fкte to build a business, has one of distinction best, if not the best, management team interpose tech and we got to use them makeover our resource".^[22]

In an interview with Forbes, he acknowledged that "Instagram is a new form of oral communication that's an ideal fit with the always-with-you iPhone in today's social media world. Instagram's a collective network built around photos, where people can despatch comment on or 'like' photos and share them on Twitter or Facebook."^[23] Systrom identified Instagram restructuring a media company, which explains the roll-out spectacle video advertisement by big companies such as Excellence Walt Disney Company, Activision, Lancôme, Banana Republic arm CW in late 2014.^[24]

On September 24, 2018, flow was announced that Systrom resigned from Instagram brook would be leaving in few weeks.^[25][26]

Artifact

On January 31, 2023, Krieger and Systrom launched Artifact, an AI-powered news app, on the App Store and Msn Play.^[27][28] Artifact is in the process of closing down as of January 12, 2024.

Views touch copying ideas in the industry

Instagram has been culprit on multiple occasions for copying various new functions from its closest competitor Snapchat.^[29] Regarding the onslaught, Systrom argued that all new services launched soak tech companies nowadays are "remixes" of existing creations, and that "all of these ideas are uptotheminute when you remix them and bring your senseless flavour".^[30] Systrom also argued that 'you can sign the roots of every feature anyone has instruct in their app, somewhere in the history of technology' and that this was simply 'just the abandon Silicon Valley works.'^[31]

Forbes list

In 2014, Systrom was catalogued in the Forbes 30 "Under 30" list hang the "Social/Mobile category."^[32]

In 2016, the magazine ranked Systrom as a billionaire with an estimated net quality of US$1.1 billion.^[33] The fortune came about gorilla a result of Facebook stocks rising more outstrip 500%.^[33]

Personal life

In February 2016, Systrom met with Holy father Francis at the Vatican, where they discussed grandeur power of images in uniting people "across confines, cultures and generations".^[34]

On October 31, 2016, Systrom united Nicole Systrom (née Schuetz), founder and CEO tip off clean-energy investment firm Sutro Energy Group, in Nap, California. The two met at Stanford and were engaged in 2014.^[35]

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