When Instagram launched its first app in October 2010, it did not strike most people as the kind of startup that would be acquired for $1 billion.
“We were all like, ‘what’s the big deal? It’s just photos and filters,” Brian Blau, a Research Director with the Consumer Technology and Markets Group at Gartner, tells Mashable. But in retrospect, he adds, “There’s something to be said around that simplicity.”
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