Awards & Recognition
★Forbes 30 Under 30 (Social/Mobile category) 2014
★Inc 30 Under 30 list 2011
★Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011 (#66)
★Instagram won Apple App of the Year 2011
★Instagram runner-up for TechCrunch Crunchies Best Mobile App 2010
★America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016
Notable Facts
→Co-founded Instagram with Mike Krieger and sold it to Facebook for $1 billion in 2012
→Served as Instagram CEO from 2010-2018, growing it to 800M+ users
→Personal stake from Instagram sale netted ~$400 million
→Created COVID-19 tracking website Rt.live during pandemic
→Co-founded AI news app Artifact in 2023 (shut down 2024, acquired by Yahoo)
→Board member at Walmart and Snowflake
→Met with Pope Francis at Vatican in 2016
→Has 8M+ Instagram followers and 124K+ Twitter followers
→Commands $100K-$200K speaking fees