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Mike Krieger

From Scratch with Jessica Harris

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The Struggles of Starting a Mobile App With Photos

Instagram's focus on photos was striking to Facebook, your acquirer. All of the scaling part was really hard. It actually made it hard to recruit engineers because they would be like, what am I going to do? Everything is just working and your product looks done. One of the hardest things is convincing people, it sounds like it's easy but it's actually really hard to pitch their trailer to your wagon or whatever.

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