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" Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period. "

Kevin Systrom

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" It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to 'Instagram,' but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier. "

" There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you. "

" In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. "

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" Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'. "

" I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there. "

" Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone. "

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" Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising. "

" If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us. "

" When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry. "

" All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it. "

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" Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.' "

" The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories. "

" 'Instagram' can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that's true with 'WhatsApp,' and I think that will be true with things like Oculus. "

Kevin Systrom

People

True

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" I own a Canon 20D, though I don't remember the last time I used it. Ever since the iPhone 4, I've been completely absorbed in taking photos from my mobile phone. "

" I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business. "

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