Kevin Systrom

Kevin Systrom, 2018

Kevin Systrom (born December 30, 1983 ) is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer. He was best known as co-founder and CEO of Instagram .

Career

Systrom began programming computer games when he was a schoolboy in a boarding school on the east coast. He then studied management and engineering at Stanford University in California . In 2006 he completed his studies with a bachelor's degree and subsequently worked for various companies, including a. for google . With his business partner Mike Krieger , whom he met during his studies, he founded the free online service Instagram in 2010 . In 2012 Instagram was sold to Facebook for approximately $ 1 billion , of which $ 400 million went to Systrom. Between 2012 and 2018 he continued to work as CEO for Instagram, but left the company in September 2018 after disagreements with parent company Facebook.

capital

Kevin Systrom has assets of $ 1.33 billion as of 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ How old is Kevin Systrom? , last seen on December 23, 2015
2. ↑ Instagram. About Us. The Team , last seen on December 24, 2015
3. ↑ Instagram: Stories of an Iconoclast ZEIT ONLINE, last seen on May 15, 2017
4. ↑ Instagram. About Us. The Team , last seen on December 24, 2015
5. ↑ $ 1,000,000,000 for two years of work Die Welt, last seen on December 23, 2015
6. ↑ Statement from Kevin Systrom, Instagram Co-Founder and CEO . In: Instagram . September 25, 2018 ( instagram-press.com [accessed September 25, 2018]).
7. ↑ Instagram's co-founders quit after eight years at the helm . In: ABC News . September 25, 2018 ( net.au [accessed September 25, 2018]).