If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.
Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.
I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.
You need to fail in order to find the right solution.
There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.
I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.
The best feature is less features.
Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.
The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.
What people tell you and how they act is very, very different sometimes.
I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.
Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable
I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.
You need to find people that are drawn to the idea that you build, and they end up taking it and making it even better.
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
Great products sell themselves.
Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.
I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.
People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.
I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."
Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.
You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.
