Mark and Kevin often met each other at various gatherings at Stanford when Kevin Systrom was a student.
Relationship
Instagram along with it 13 employees was acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 Billion in cash and stock in April 2012. Even after the acquisition, Instagram remains an independently managed company and Mark continues to provide advise and guidance to Kevin
The best advice she got, Lee said, came from Marissa Mayer when Lee considering taking a job at Google. Mayer said her own favorite choices had come when she followed the more difficult road. “’Are you learning, are you growing, are you challenging yourself?’†Lee recalled Mayer asking. “I always define my career in terms of that.â€
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