L’inventeur d’Instagram !

Kevin Systrom 2013 (cropped).jpgKevin Systrom invented a new social network that allows to make beautiful photos and shows them to our friends.

 

He and his family   #private life

Kevin is famous in the media industry. Systrom was born in 1983 in Holliston, Massachusetts. His mother ‘s name is Diane Systrom, she is a marketing executive at ZIPCAR and his father’s name is Douglas Systrom, he is a Vice president in human ressources at TJX companies.

In 2006,  Kevin graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in management science and engineering. He talking twenty five languages : French, English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish …

In 31th October 2015 he married Nicole Schue

Important event of his life   #days marking

He is most known as being the co-founder of Instagram and he invented the first version of Instagram the 6th of octobre, 2010.  After having been restricted to the iPhone and iPad, Instagram is now open to Android devices and is limited to artwork photo sharing. Fun and simple, it offers treatments and various filters. Its features are quick to summarize.

In April 2012, Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock
In June 2016, Instagram has over 500 million users.

His invention and why      #success

His greatest success was invented instagram. Thanks to Instagram he became a billionaire. Kevin Systrom invented a new social network that allows to make beautiful photos and shows them to our friends.

Once opened, please register and create an account to access the service. Getting started is easy, simply to recover existing photos or transfer those just to operate the cropping and use filters that are multiple : color, sepia, deformations, borders. contrasts…

The most popular,  the Tilt Shift, blur the edges of the image and center sharpness on the main subject. As with a very wide angle. This gives the illusion of being in a model where the subjects appear in miniature. All settings are automatic.

As for his community, it has many followers, some prestigious as Barack Obama or Justin Bieber, the Canadian singer fashionable. Publish his photos is used to show his creativity and ensure his self-promotion.

Finally, a Facebook option proposes to transfer its works, but only on its account configured in log mode. On iPhone. visualization is easy. A popular topic allows you to vote for the photos that you like by clicking on the button I like. They will be put forward.

On the other hand, it is impossible to access his private space on Internet. And on the site Web of Instagram. We can just change his account.

To continue to develop, the publisher signed a partnership with Hipstamatic. Users of this other retro style photo editing app can automatically send their works on an instagram.

But that was before the purchase surprised instagram by Facebook… which should, according to Mark Zuckerberg, change to the app star.

One of these quotations    #sentences

Do what you love, and do it well – that’s much more meaningful than any metric.

<< Faites ce que vous aimez, et faites-le bien c’est beaucoup plus significatif que n’importe quelle mesure. >>

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.

 

His message #lesson

Because he did what he liked, well. (photo and instagram)

He knew how to make his project that he liked very well known.

One must believe in his dreams.

 Sources:
 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Systrom
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 dernière mise à jour: 7 janvier 2017

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