That’s one of the main takeaways’ from Bloomberg reporter Sarah Frier’s No Filter, which expertly chronicles the rise of Instagram from its early days as a fledgling Foursquare-like check-in app, to the Facebook-owned behemoth that currently accounts for more than a quarter of the company’s $70 billion revenue.įrier’s work is based on lengthy interviews with the company’s two founders, current and former employees, and it brings fresh insight into some of Instagram’s most pivotal moments. Now we have another explanation for those disagreements: Zuckerberg’s jealousy that his acquisition would outshine Facebook’s core service. It later emerged that their departures had come after months of tension with Mark Zuckerberg about the direction of the company and the app’s design. When Instagram’s two founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krierger, resigned from Facebook in 2018, the move was so sudden even employees were shocked.
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