152 Quotes by Kevin Systrom

I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.

Great products sell themselves.

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 did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable

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 of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.

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.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.