No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
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More than 200 million of Instagram’s users have more than 50,000 followers,
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a percent of Instagram’s users have more than a million followers. At Instagram’s massive scale, that 0.00603 percent equates to more than 6 million Insta-celebrities,
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Instead of trying to get everyone to use their app, they invited only people they thought would be likely to spread the word to their followers elsewhere, especially designers and creatives. They sold exclusivity to investors, even when so many of them were skeptical.
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It was better to start with something minimalist, and then let priorities reveal themselves as users ran into trouble.
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“Step one: obtain a ton of users. Step two: get brands to leverage your service. Step three: get celebrities to use your service and promote it. Step four: mainstream.”
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“People who don’t take risks work for people who do,”
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Once they succeeded in landing on the page, they would gain more followers, making their next posts more likely to succeed.
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“The more you give up who you are to be liked by other people, it’s a formula for chipping away at your soul.
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Peter Thiel wrote in his 2014 book Zero to One,
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either don’t throw any punches, or strike hard and end it quickly.”
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seven in ten young people have experienced some form of cyberbullying.