LA Times Posts Snapshot of Instagram Co-Founder

Are you ready to be sickened? It took 27-year-old Kevin Systrom (pictured) and a colleague just eight weeks to put together Instagram, the online platform that enables Apple device users to share digital photos. In short order, the service has attracted five million users and $7.5 million in venture capital.

Via boxed out profile put together by San Francisco based LA Times technology reporter Jessica Guynn, Systrom also proves that indoor summer camp electives can be as key for future tech nerds as those outdoor basketball workouts are for fellow would-be future NBA stars:

Systrom came to appreciate digital photography after taking a Photoshop software class at summer camp.

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