Instagram Co-Founder Says Luck Contributed To Success

April 10, 2012 12:00 AM
Instagram Co-Founder Says Luck Contributed To Success
" BOSTON (CBS) – One of the co-founders of Instagram is worth at least $400 million after Facebook bought the tiny mobile photo sharing service.

Kevin Systrom is from Holliston, but he left for the west coast and Stanford out of high school and never returned.

In an interview, Systrom explained how he grew the company to millions of users with only a few dozen employees.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Anthony Silva reports

“I feel very lucky that so far we’ve managed to do a lot of things exactly at the right moment, exactly at the right time with the right combination of things,” says Systrom "

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