Instagram’s Kevin Systrom on leaving Facebook: ‘No one ever leaves a job because everything’s awesome’

Everything wasn’t awesome at Facebook for former Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. That’s about all Systrom, who unexpectedly left Facebook last month amid tensions with Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, would say on Monday during his first public interview since departing. Systrom said that he and co-founder Mike Krieger felt that they’d gotten Instagram to a point of self-sufficiency and were eager to get out and build something new. When asked if there were tensions with Facebook, as Recode and others reported, Systrom didn’t push back on the claim.

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