Paul Graham encouraged us to think bigger and suggested we replace the entire photos app on the phone to increase usage of our photo sharing product.

Despite not being able to launch our photo roll product, we recognized its potential, and several companies showed interest in it, indicating it could be the photo app of the future.

After realizing our initial product wasn't meeting user needs, we pivoted to focus on photo sharing, leading us to develop a new app called Flock.

We learned a lesson from doing the iPhone app: even though we had all these ideas of great features, we weren't great at one thing; there wasn't one thing that was special about it.

When we co-founded Instagram, we realized that the core of our product was about taking photos and sharing experiences, which led us to strip away distractions and focus on what truly worked.

We designed Pebble by incorporating feedback from our first product, ensuring it worked with iPhones and included features that users wanted.

After initially exploring various projects, we realized we should have focused on the captions app, which was already successful without any updates.

After selling our company to Google, we planned to rebuild our photo roll idea with Google technology to create Google Photos, and I was optimistic about its success.

I then partnered with a friend to build products for the iPhone, inspired by the potential of the new technology.