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Introduction
Patrick
Our guests this week are Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram. I met Kevin and Mike a few months ago over a shared interest in business and investing. I found them both to be extremely good people who have a rare talent for finding and solving interesting problems. Indeed, problem-solving and jobs-to-be-done is a big part of our conversation. I realized walking into the podcast that Kevin and Mike also have a rare set of experiences, having both built and sold an extremely successful product from scratch, but then also operated and scaled inside of one of the largest businesses in the world. This means they have unique knowledge to offer, just about anybody interested in business and in products. We dig into all those lessons here. I'm working on hosting more founders and CEOs on this podcast, and can't think of a better pair to show you why I want to do so. Please enjoy my conversation with Kevin and Mike.Current Areas of Learning
So, gentlemen, we're going to talk about a lot of business-related stuff. We'll talk about Instagram for sure, because I'm fascinated by what you learned, both building the business from scratch and then also operating inside of a massive organization. But, I always like to begin with whatever has your interest and attention right now. So, you've had some time since leaving Instagram. The last time we were here, we were talking about all sorts of interesting companies that you had seen, and data science-related projects you were working on. And, you just strike me as two incredibly curious and interested guys. So let's just begin there with, what have you been tooling away at, playing with, learning about, since having a little bit more free time?