I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

People always told me photos have been done. My feeling was, these people are wrong.

Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.

I actually think some of my best moments in life have been while I was with people from Instagram - whether it's super late nights getting a release out or being able to travel to places I'd never visited and meeting some of the most interesting people I've ever met.