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Kevin Systrom was born December 30,1983 in Holliston, Massachusetts. Son of Diane Pels and Douglas Systrom.
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-He was a deejay at a club in Boston as a teen.
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Systrom graduated in 2006 from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in management science and engineering. He was member of fraternity Sigma Nu.
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He handled marketing projects for Gmail and Calendar. After two years, he managed to switch to Google’s M&A division, where he learned about big tech deals and the money it takes to do them.
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He left Google for a job at a social site called Nextstop, which offered travel recommendations. There he was able to do more of what he had wanted all along: write code and create app-style programs for the site, including games revolving around photos.
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Instagram, of course, was not without competition. Systrom says that when they launched it, “a slew of people came out [with similar apps], and I think since then, one by one, they’ve begun to do other things.” That included Color, a particularly hyped app that touted itself as a Facebook for photos.
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Two hours after Instagram went live, its servers came tumbling down because of the rush of traffic. Systrom and Krieger freaked out and feared instant failure, but in fact it was the best thing they could have hoped for
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In US dollars Kevin Systrom's Networth is 1.1 billion.
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-Drive
-Vision
-Perseverance
-Indecisiveness
