152 Quotes by Kevin Systrom

On the intimate relationships, I’d say you can be someone who wouldn’t normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

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 company and pump them into new business.

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It’s a huge part of my life.

I don’t think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can’t see it becoming a business.

I’ve always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

We’re just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that’s why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

Obviously, being the CEO, there are a lot of eyes on what you do and what you post and how you post, and I think one of the challenges of Instagram in general is that, as we get bigger, there are just more voices in the room, more eyes on everyone’s accounts.

A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.