Mike Krieger

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  • Coronavirus around blood cells

    Instagram founders reunite to create a COVID-19 spread tracker

    by 
    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    04.18.2020

    Instagram's co-founders have reunited for a unique COVID-19 tracker that gauges efforts to fight the spread of the disease.

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    Instagram founders on Snapchat and breaking up Facebook

    by 
    Edgar Alvarez
    Edgar Alvarez
    03.11.2019

    We haven't heard much from Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger since they resigned from Facebook last September. But on Monday, the pair spoke at SXSW 2019 about the rise of Instagram, social media rivals like Snapchat and whether governments should break up Facebook. Systrom and Krieger founded the photo-sharing app in 2010 and, in 2012, sold it to Facebook for $1 billion dollars. Since then, Instagram has quickly become one of Facebook's most prized possessions, thanks to its 1 billion monthly unique users (and counting).