5 facts you didn’t know about Instagram

Before Instagram became the social media behemoth that we know today, it began as a fledgeling company that was the idea of two Stanford graduates. With more than two billion active users, the Meta-owned social media platform might already occupy a rent-free position in your head. But here are some things that you might not have known about Instagram.

Instagram was not even called that in the beginning

Kevin Systrom was a Stanford graduate who worked on building Gmail and corporate development for Google. According to Inc., Systrom spent his weekends building a location-based photo and note-sharing app called Burbn. That is where he met Mike Krieger, who was an enthusiastic early user of Burbn.