Kevin Systrom
CEO, Instagram
Don’t Let Your Company’s Scale Tip Your Bathroom Scale
In “Instagram, A Parable,” Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom described a breaking point in his work/life balance as he tried to build the company. If you’re shoving down burritos in between database sharding, you probably can relate. “We never ate healthy at the release,” recalled ... Read more »
Zuckerberg Delayed Instagram Deal to Watch 'Game of Thrones'
Instagram's cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger opted to sell to Facebook—rather than take a competing offer from Twitter—because, as Systrom told Krieger, “I really like Mark, and I really like his company. And I really like what Facebook is trying to achieve.” Swisher's is ... Read more »
David Karp’s Dilemma
If he took Yahoo’s money, he would join the Billion Dollar Exit Club — you know, the ranks of Kevin Systrom, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen from YouTube, the Paypal mafia, Tony Hseih, James Clark, Marc Andreessen, etc. He would be considered “successful” by the Valley’s ridiculous standards ... Read more »
Instagram sale to Facebook made Jack Dorsey 'sad'
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom speaks at the LeWeb conference in Paris. It's been well-chronicled that when Instagram was sold to Facebook last year, it spurned similar interest from Twitter, probably leading to bad blood between the two companies and a tit-for-tat series of feature ... Read more »
Why Instagram Really Chose Facebook Over Twitter
In this definitive telling of the history of Instagram we get CEO Kevin Systrom's reasoning for ultimately choosing Facebook's $1 billion offer over Twitter's $520 million—and it has less to do with money than you might think. "I’m not sure what changed my mind, but he presented an ... Read more »
Before Co-Founding Instagram, Kevin Systrom Missed Out On Millions Multiple Times
Kevin Systrom sold his startup, Instagram, to Facebook last year for $1 billion in cash and stock. Before the acquisition, Systrom missed out on millions multiple times. Systrom attended Stanford. While at Stanford, Mark Zuckerberg tried to persuade Systrom to drop ... Read more »
What An Instagram Co-Founder Did After Becoming Superrich
On April 9, 2012, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold their 13-person startup, Instagram, to Facebook. Facebook purchased the photo filter app 18 months after its launch for $1 billion: $300 million in cash, the rest in Facebook stock. What has the year been like for Systrom since ... Read more »
Photos: Big acquisitions in the tech world
Pictured are Instagram creators Kevin Systrom, right, and Mike Krieger in May 2012. Google made its first move into the gadget-making world with the acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May 2012 -- its largest acquisition to date at $13 billion. Pictured, Google Executive Chairman Eric ... Read more »
Tumblr Deal Was a Private Party, With Few Bankers Invited
That deal was largely hashed out by the companies’ two founders, Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom, over a weekend last year — one that included a viewing party for HBO ‘s “Game of Thrones,” according to Vanity Fair. Lawyers were involved in both deals, however. Yahoo was advised by ... Read more »
What Tumblr’s sale means for New York startup ecosystem
I think this exit allows the young New York startup community to look up to David Karp in the same way folks here look up to Kevin Systrom of Instagram. John Borthwick, who is co-founder of New York-based Betaworks, believes that it is an important turn of the cycle, and the sale of a ... Read more »
Yahoo board approves $1.1B deal to buy Tumblr: report
As part of the deal, Tumblr CEO David Karp — who got a windfall of cash from the deal — will stay at Yahoo for four years at least and retain much control over the service, much in the same way Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom does at Facebook. But, as there, Yahoo will undergird Tumblr’s ... Read more »
MediaPost Publications Yahoo To Buy Tumblr For $1.1 Billion 05/20/2013
Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp will maintain a high level of control under the Yahoo deal, similar to Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom at Facebook, according to AllThingsD. Operating the blogging site as a freestanding subsidiary as Facebook has done with Instagram could help keep Tumblr ... Read more »
Tumblr: 108M blogs and 51 billion posts are worth more than $1.1B
Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom had multiple suitors, while Tumblr only has one. That’s because, as Forbes reveals, Yahoo is currently negotiating under a lockup. So even though Facebook, Microsoft, and potentially other acquirers are interested, Yahoo has at least ... Read more »
Why Yahoo Tumblr Could Be Facebook Instagram
Kevin Systrom had about a dozen employees when he sold his company. After keeping his staff super lean for many years, David Karp has been on a hiring spree, and Tumblr’s headcount is on track to hit something like 200 this year, with its own sales staff. So it will be harder to just ... Read more »
How Investors Think: Is your Startup a Feature, Product or Business?
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said, “Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.” In fact, $1 billion far. Cue envy. Cue funding funneling to players riding at the coattails. There were so many Instagrams for video at one point that The Next Web felt ... Read more »
Expedia Hotels & Flights Named People's Voice Travel App In The 17th...
The IADAS, which nominates and selects The Webby Awards Winners, is comprised of web industry experts, including media mogul Arianna Huffington, Skype CEO Tony Bates, Mozilla CEO and Chair Mitchell Baker, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom, mobile-phone inventor Martin Cooper, and ... Read more »
First Retina iPad Mini is on track: DisplaySearch update (Brooke Crothers/CNET)
Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram — The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom … ... Read more »
Zuckerberg Delayed Instagram Deal to Watch 'Game of Thrones'
She does remarkable stuf with the access she got to Twitter's Jack Dorsey, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and (obviously) Instagram's Kevin Systrom, So, here, I present you with... Full Article at The Atlantic By Jessica Camille Aguirre, OnEarth Usually when hordes of people threaten to ... Read more »
Small business owners share their top tips for taking a company online
But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it was more of a roller-coaster ride, with several... Full Article at Hacker News ANGUILLA, BRITISH WEST INDIES--(Marketwired - May 6, 2013) - Bingo.com, Ltd. (OTCQB:BNGOF), owner of the popular online gaming community http://www.bingo.com... Read more »
INFORUM Hosts Instagram Founders Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger at The Castro Theatre
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/14/13 -- INFORUM announced today that it will host Instagram co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, on May 30th at The Castro Theatre in conversation with Kevin Rose, general partner at Google Ventures. Since its release in October 2010... Read more »
