Kevin Systrom is a co-founder of Instagram and is an American entrepreneur. After graduating from Sandford, Kevin worked at Google for two years before leaving out of frustration because he was not given the position he wanted. After that he went on to create the prototype which later on became Burbn. Burbn is a photo editing he created after his girlfriend did not want to post her photos because they didn’t have a filter. After coming up with idea he was able to receive 500,000 dollars in seed money from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. After further developing Burbn Systrom and Instagram’s other cofounder Mike Kreiger found that Burbn had to many features. People do not like things that are too complicated and so they decided to focus on one thing and that was photo sharing. Instagram was that idea that was developed into an app. Within the first month of launching the social media platform it had already gained a million users. The next year that followed Instagram had gained 10 million users. In 2012 Instagram was purchased by Facebook for 1 billion dollars. It is really crazy how rapidly the company took off. They were sold for that much after only 2 years of business.