Kevin Systrom quotes

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

#Entrepreneur #Wells

We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.
-- Kevin Systrom

#People #Shifting #Instagram

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.
-- Kevin Systrom

#College #Thinking #Class

I really value passion for the product above experience.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Passion #Values

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

#Spread

We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Want #Instagram #Company

Great products sell themselves.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Entrepreneur

Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos. There's a reason we don't allow you to upload photos on the Web as albums. It's not about taking all these photos off your DSLR putting them into an album and sharing them with your family. It's not about that. It's about what are you up to right now out in the real world, how can you share that with everyone.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Real #Communication #Thinking

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Inspiring #Running #Crazy

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Moments #Communicate #Moments In Time

You need to fail in order to find the right solution.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Order #Needs #Failing

The best feature is less features.
-- Kevin Systrom

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.
-- Kevin Systrom

#School #Important #Way

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Believe #Successful #Entrepreneur

I actually think some of my best moments in life have been while I was with people from Instagram - whether it's super late nights getting a release out or being able to travel to places I'd never visited and meeting some of the most interesting people I've ever met.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Night #Thinking #People

People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Thinking #Phones #People

The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Views #World #Point Of View

What people tell you and how they act is very, very different sometimes.
-- Kevin Systrom

#People #Different #Sometimes

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Memories #Past #People

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Real #People #Entrepreneur

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Giving #Instagram #Places To Live

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

#Thinking #Media #Instagram

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Squares #Filters #Photoshop

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

#Nuts #Cameras #Grew Up

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

#Moving #Thinking #Becoming

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Goal #Way #Share

With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Focus #Instagram #Tense

I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Artist #Reality #Ideas

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
-- Kevin Systrom

#Inspiring #Success #Jobs

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

#Instagram #Reason #Following