Instagram co-founders are young, widely praised -- and very, very rich
By Peter Delevett
Instagram co-founders are young, widely praised -- and very, very rich
By Peter Delevett
mercurynews.com - April 10, 2012 5:2 AM GMT
Facebook to buy mobile photo app Instagram for $1 billionStorify: Oh snap! Facebook is buying InstagramInstagram CEO's message to its usersZuckerberg: Why Facebook is buying InstagramWhen word broke Monday morning that Facebook was buying a tiny San Francisco startup for $1 billion, many asked: "Who are these guys?"
Instagram, which makes a wildly popular app to turn mobile-phone photos into mini works of art, has a staff that barely tops a dozen. And at the top of the org chart are a pair of co-founders just a few years removed from their Stanford undergraduate days.
Kevin Systrom graduated from the Farm in 2006 and has worked at Google (GOOG) and the forerunner to Twitter. Co-founder Mike Krieger is even younger, a 2008 Stanford grad from Brazil who, before Instagram's launch, had only held one full-time job, and that for less than 18 months.
Both men, through a Facebook spokesman, declined an interview request. But people who have worked with them say they benefit from a winning combination of technology chops and people skills.