
Instagram's Kevin Systrom: Keep it simple while scaling big
Masters of Scale
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How to Build a Product That Works
Kevin studied management science and engineering at Stanford. He also built web apps in his spare time Including a photo sharing app for his friends When graduation came around in 2006, he took a job at Google. Kevin soon moved from a team that was building new products To one that was charged with acquiring them. In 2008 the market tanked after the financial crisis And Kevin, he got bored I was complaining, hey, like the market crashed, we're not buying any companies, what should I do? One of my coworkers was like, you should pick up golf For Kevin, it was a startup life he had yearn for It's all connected which is You know, when I did sports as a
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