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It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.

As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

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People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.

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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.

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Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

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I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

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If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

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I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

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All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

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I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

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