[mrkramer]

I can't resist and say that Kevin Systrom had more luck than skill in his success with Instagram. Yes he is smart and yes he is Stanford graduate but c'mon he said that he didn't know what AWS is at the time when he started Instagram....that's just unbelievable tbh.

[Alifatisk]

At what year did he start Instagram? Was AWS even a thing before Instagrams existence?

[mrkramer]

Yea it was, because cloud was a buzzword at the time and everybody was doing it(Amazon first then Google and Microsoft followed).

In 2009, Larry Ellison(Oracle founder) was making fun of cloud[0] because everyone was on a cloud hypetrain.

[0] https://youtu.be/rmrxN3GWHpM?t=2753