Stewart Butterfield Quotes

I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

I am extremely passionate about digital media and as a longtime user and fan of Yahoo!

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just don't take them very often.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.

Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

'Instagram' is definitely becoming a new entertainment source for people day after day.

Just so everyone knows, we're not a photo-sharing company. I don't see photos on 'Instagram' as art. They're much more about communication.

I love Instagram and Facebook.

I got started on YouTube when I was a freshman in college. I was a broadcast journalism major, and I already had a lot of experience with video editing and photography.

Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.

Social media is great in some ways - if we're able to spread good messages.

There's only a few platforms that really aggregate content well together, Facebook being one of the best, probably the most diverse of all of them.

The YouTube revolution isn't a revolution in content consumption, although there's a huge number of content consumers. It's about how anybody with a camera or a smartphone can create a video and share it with the whole world.

We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos.

It just so happened that I had this place called YouTube where everybody in the world could do exactly what they wanted to do and it's potentially one of the most exciting times I've discovered in the history of anything ever.

Facebook is a powerful company, yes, but so was IBM.