Words matter. These are the best Mike Krieger Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It took less time to build ‘Instagram’ than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.
When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It’s a way of papering over the fact that you haven’t quite nailed your concept yet.
I’m fascinated with being able to travel the world via ‘Instagram’ and just be somewhere different.
Software is like gardening – one day I’ll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?
Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it’s clearly not going to.
Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
Hearing ‘no’ a lot of times usually tells you either you’re crazy or you’re on the right track, and you don’t know which one it is until you finally launch.
My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
By 2013, we had 200 million people using ‘Instagram’ every month and over 20 billion photos stored.
People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.
Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you’re likely to get it wrong.
You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company.
With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it… you’re going to break some use cases.
Doing the simple thing first doesn’t mean your solution will work forever.
Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world’s toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I’m hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S.
I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of ‘Yahoo Music Engine’.
Just because you’ve Googled something doesn’t mean you’ve learned.
In 2010, the night before we launched ‘Instagram v1’, my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its first day in the wild.
I love that our engineers are first and foremost ‘Instagram’ users.
In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.
People want to share photos with only their friends and loved ones.
The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you’re passionate about; you’ll probably already have knowledge in the space.
