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Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram

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Hey, it's Guy here, so today we're releasing another live interview from this year's How I Built This Summit, which happened this past October in San Francisco. And this one's my conversation with Kevin Sistrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram. And if you haven't heard their original podcast episode, you should definitely go back and give it a listen. In that episode, they talk about how they kind of stumbled on the idea of using filters for photo sharing. and how in just two years, they got nearly 30 million followers and then sold to Facebook for a billion dollars. They spent six more years there, and then both of them stepped down in 2018. And so when we sat down together at the summit, here's the question I was thinking of. Have to you launch one of the most successful apps in the world?

What do you do next? Let's talk about the last year. It's been about a year since you left. Has it been a little bit weird. I mean'cause you had a staff and this team and this company and you were coming into work every day and Then there's a day where you

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