Who Founded Instagram

Who Founded Instagram: Instagram was co-founded by Stanford University graduates Kevin Systrom as well as Mike Krieger in San Francisco, California in 2010.


Who Founded Instagram


The photo-sharing as well as later on video-sharing, social media company's advancement started when the creators decided to focus their multi-featured HTML5 check-in project, Burbn, on mobile photography.

The Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer Krieger realized, Burbn ended up being as well much like Foursquare. Burbn was after that rotated to become extra focused on photo-sharing.

The name Instagram is derived from the words "instant camera" as well as "telegram". Their iOS application was formally launched with Apple's App Shop on October 6th, 2010 as well as later on to Android on April 3rd, 2012 with Google Play (a.k.a. Android Market).

Today it flaunts over 800 million signed up users around the world as well as greater than 450 million individuals use the platform daily.

Numerous experts, myself included, think that it could reach a billion users later on this year. That's more than double the month-to-month active individuals of Twitter and also over 3 times as several individuals on Facebook Carrier and WhatsApp.

Greater than 80% of its customers are located outside of the United States.

Facebook introduced their acquisition of Instagram on April 9th, 2012 for $1 billion in money and also stock, together with 13 staff members.