Tag Archives: Kevin Systrom

What Instagram Plans to Do With Faster Growth Than Flickr

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It took Flickr, one of the world’s largest photo-sharing sites, close to 2.5 years to reach 150 million photos, which could be uploaded from any computer and shot on any camera. But it took San Francisco-based start-up Instagram roughly just nine months to hit that same milestone–with just one mobile app, available only on iOS, writes Austin Carr for Fast Company. READ MORE »

Management Lessons From Google

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Ex-Googlers are known for creating  internet start-ups. Former Googler Dennis Crowley sold Dodgeball to Google and then started Foursquare. Evan Williams sold his company Blogger to Google and co-founded Twitter. Popular photo sharing application Instagram is brought to you by former Google employee Kevin Systrom. READ MORE »