Zitat des Tages von Mike Krieger:
I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.
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.
Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.
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?
Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.
I'm fascinated with being able to travel the world via 'Instagram' and just be somewhere different.
People want to share photos with only their friends and loved ones.
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.
When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from startup leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, who had endeavoured to create new opportunities and improve lives around the world.
Every year, thousands of startups are founded - not only in technology, but increasingly also in health care, education, and energy.
Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.
I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.
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.
By 2013, we had 200 million people using 'Instagram' every month and over 20 billion photos stored.
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 grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
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.
People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.
Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.
