Early Quote by Stewart Butterfield

I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the…

— Stewart Butterfield

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it…

— Stewart Butterfield

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

— Max Levchin

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these…

— Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like…

— Caterina Fake

People want to share photos with only their friends and loved ones.

— Mike Krieger

In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with…

— Alec Soth

What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing…

— David Filo

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots…

— Stewart Butterfield

People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.

— Mike Krieger

Facebook could have gone public whenever it wanted. We decided the right time was 2012. It could have easily been 2010 or 2014.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are…

— Om Malik