10 Young and Most Successful Tech Founders
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 21:29 IST |
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10. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
Kevin Systrom, 27 and Mike Krieger, 25 founded Instagram, which is mobile photosharing app with 9 million users.
Both Kevin and Mike are products of Stanford University. Kevin spent two years at Google - the first of which was working on Gmail, Google Reader, and other products and the latter where he worked on the Corporate Development team.
Mike on the other hand worked at Meebo for a year and a half as a user experience designer and as a front-end engineer before joining the Instagram team doing design & development.
The company valuation stands at $100 million.