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The Platform Era · 2010s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.

The legends

Kevin Systrom — Filtered the World

Co-founder & CEO

Co-founder & CEO
Sold to Facebook for ~$1B
Stanford grad, Google alum

Mike Krieger — The Technical Half

Co-founder & CTO
Later co-founded Artifact; now CPO at Anthropic

Marne Levine

First Instagram COO

Shayne Sweeney

Early engineer

Also on the roster

Andreessen / Benchmark

When Instagram lands on your reels, these are the people you draft — Visionary, Operator, Builder, Financier, one irreversible lock at a time. How few companies in the world will be worth more than yours?

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