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Instagram's Kevin Systrom: Keep it simple while scaling big

Masters of Scale

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Mafia Wars - A Simple App

Kevin's system, the man who had co-found one of the fastest growing tech companies in history Was bad at growth. Next Stop ignited Kevin's desire to build something himself. He studied the code that Next Stop was based on And learned the basics of building a scalable web app Soon, he was building his own projects outside of work. One of these side projects was a check-in app he called Bourbon Though he spelled it B-U-R-B-N You know mafia wars, remember mafia wars? Mafia wars is a hugely popular online game created by Zynga For more information, listen to the masters of scale episode with Zynga's founder, Marc Pincus

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