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Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.
The world runs on luck.
Great products sell themselves.
The best feature is less features.
With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
You need to fail in order to find the right solution.
'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months.
I really value passion for the product above experience.
I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.
It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.
People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.
Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.
Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable
We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.
What people tell you and how they act is very, very different sometimes.
Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.
I'm a huge fan of what 'Hipstamatic' is doing and all they've accomplished.
There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.
Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.
Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.
If you focus on producing a great experience for anyone, that's how you get big.
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.
The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.
People always told me photos have been done. My feeling was, these people are wrong.
Our goal is to allow people to use whatever app they want to get photos into 'Instagram'.
I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business.
I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.
Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly.
I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.
I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.
We're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on Instagram.
I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.
I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.
'Instagram' is an app that only took 8 weeks to build and ship but was a product of over a year of work.
It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.
I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.
Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'.
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.
I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.
You need to find people that are drawn to the idea that you build, and they end up taking it and making it even better.
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.
The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.
I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.
Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.
When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry.
The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.
I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
