Kevin Systrom - Creator of Instagram
Kevins Systrom was born in Holliston, Massachusetts, a wealthy suburb of Boston. His father worked as a human resources executive, while his mother worked in tech. He enjoyed playing video games as a child. Through the love of video games and technology we began to get into programming.
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He received education from the ‘Middlesex School’ located in Concord, Massachusetts. During his school days he learnt about computer programming. As a child, he played the video game called ‘Doom 2’, which further developed his interest in programming.
Kevin came from a technology background as his mother was involved in tech as her professional occupation. Oftentimes, in the summer, Kevin would go to tech programming camps.
Systrom attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he was introduced to computer programming. His interest grew from playing Doom 2 and creating his own levels as a child. As a teenager, Systrom was obsessed with record collecting and deejaying. While still in high school, he used to have his friends sneak him into clubs in the Boston area to open for established DJs. Systrom applied early decision to Stanford University. He had planned to study computer science, but once he arrived, decided to switch majors to management science and engineering.
Systrom attended Stanford University and graduated in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in management science and engineering. Systrom soon became interested in photography, and built a photo sharing site for his fraternity brothers in his spare time. During his junior year, he spent a semester in Florence to study photography. Right before his senior year at Stanford, Systrom interned at a podcasting company called Odeo. Odeo was founded by Evan Williams, who went on to create Twitter. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was also working at Odeo at the time, and he and Systrom became good friends. In 2004, while Systrom was still in college, Mark Zuckerberg tried to recruit him to come work at Facebook. Systrom turned him down. After graduation, Systrom was offered a job at Google. For the first two years out of school, Systrom handled marketing for Gmail and Google Calendar. He later switched to Google's M&A division. Nevertheless, on October 6, 2020 Kevin Systrom launched one of the most popular apps ever created called “Instagram”
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