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A LOVE OF PHOTOGRAPHY During Systrom’s junior year of college, he traveled to Italy to study photography. He brought a very powerful SLR camera with him, but his teacher immediately swapped it with a less powerful one. Systrom says this experience taught him “the beauty of vintage photography and also the beauty of imperfection.”

Stanford University’s location in California’s Silicon Valley makes it an ideal place to connect with the tech industry.

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Story of a Startup