About Kevin Systrom - Creator of Instagram
Kevin Systrom (born December 30, 1983) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Instagram, the world's largest photo sharing website, along with Mike Krieger.
Systrom was included on the list of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016. Under Systrom as CEO, Instagram became a fast growing app, with 800 million monthly users as of September 2017. He resigned as the CEO of Instagram on September 24, 2018.
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 âMiddlesex Schoolâ located in Concord, Massachusetts. During his school days he learnt about computer programming. As a child, he played the video game called âDoom 2â, 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.
He got his first taste of the startup world when he was chosen as one of twelve students to participate in the Mayfield Fellows Program at Stanford University.
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.