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    Drew Olanoff
    December 18th, 2012

    Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom Says It Is Committed To “Answering Questions And Fixing Mistakes”

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    In a very carefully worded blog post penned by Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom, he laid out what Facebook and Instagram will do to answer any and all questions that users might have over the recent privacy and terms of service changes. This was the “Beacon-Like” response we were anticipating: I’m writing this today to let you know we’re listening and to commit to you that we… → Read More

    Ingrid Lunden
    December 5th, 2012

    Kevin Systrom: Instagram Will Exist Independent Of Facebook For A Long Time To Come

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    Today Twitter and mobile photo-sharing app Instagram took one step apart from each other, but this isn’t necessarily a sign that Instagram is stepping further into the arms of its new owner, Facebook. → Read More

    Alexia Tsotsis
    November 6th, 2011

    Instagram’s Kevin Systrom On International Expansion, Instagram Video, Funding Rumors And More

    With over 100K weekly downloads coming in just from China, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom had a lot to say during his TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing talk, tackling head-on the issue of how to approach social in China’s unique market as well as what exactly to do about the multitudes of clones. → Read More

    Rip Empson
    September 13th, 2011

    Instagram And Intuit Founders Discuss Lean Startups, Pivots, And What Makes A Product Successful

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    Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Founder of Intuit Scott Cook, writer and former CTO at IMVU Eric Ries, and Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom gathered to discuss concepts from Ries’ new book, The Lean Startup.

    While “lean” is thrown around a lot as modifier for contemporary businesses, Ries said that with his book he hopes to clear up one of the big misconceptions in defining the term; for… → Read More

    Erick Schonfeld
    July 8th, 2011

    Mobile First Speaker LineUp: Joe Hewitt, Omar Hamoui, Kevin Systrom, And More

    At the end of this month, we are putting on a Mobile First CrunchUp, which will focus on the increasingly popular strategy of creating a mobile product first, and a regular Web product second, if ever. Mobile is just a more interesting part of the Web right now for many reasons—iPhone/Android, tablets, location-aware apps, cell phone cameras, GPS.

    People are so interested in this topic that… → Read More

    Erick Schonfeld
    February 3rd, 2011

    (Founder Stories) Instagram CEO: "The Best Products In The World Start Out As Features"

    If you care about startups or how hit products are made, watch the video above, which is Part II of Chris Dixon’s Founder Stories conversation with Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. Instagram is of course the hot social photo app that just raised $7 million this week. Yesterday, in Part I, Systrom talked about why he decided to change the product entirely before it even launched and the stress of… → Read More

    Erick Schonfeld
    February 2nd, 2011

    (Founder Stories) Kevin Systrom On Instagram's Launch, "I Have Never Felt So Sick Ever"

    So far in it’s brief existence, Instagram has had a wild ride. It started out as a location app called Burbn, then pivoted before it even launched to just photos. Within a week, the photo sharing app was up to 100,000 users, and then 1 million. Today, the company announced that it just raised $7 million from Benchmark and others.

    But what was it like that first day Instagram hit the app store? → Read More