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Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243
Lex Fridman interviews Instagram co-founder and former CEO Kevin Systrom about building the product, its early days and its pivot story.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to for the founder's own account of Instagram's pivot, early scaling on Django with a small team, and avoiding overengineering.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Lex Fridman
- Topic
- startup founder interview
- Format
- podcast
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Interesting interview of Lex Friedman to Kevin Systrom co-founder of instagram where he talks about the beginning of the platform and overengineering. [VIDEO]
melenaboija on Hacker News · 2021-11
In Overengineering can kill a productThank you for sharing this -- I didn't realize this existed. Instagram is covered in your link, and you can hear about it from the founder in this really good Lex Fridman podcast: [VIDEO] These lists always kind of remind me of popular bands that …
joegahona on Hacker News · 2022-09
In Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot stories?
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