Kevin Systrom y Mike Krieger son los responsables de una de las redes sociales más importantes de la historia: Instagram. Hace ocho años dieron vida a este servicio, y hoy conocemos que llega el momento de abandonarlo.

La primera información al respecto llegó de manos del New York Times, pero el propio Systrom se ha encargado de confirmarlo a través de un comunicado en el blog de Instagram.

@mikeyk and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team. Weve grown from 13 people on the team to over a thousand with offices around the world, all while building products used and loved by a community of over one billion. Weve loved learning to scale a company and nurture an enormous global community. And we couldnt have done it without our amazing Instagram team, and the support of @zuck, @sherylsandberg, @schrep, and @chriscox at Facebook - weve learned so much from all of you. Now, were ready for our next chapter.

Were planning on taking some time off to explore our curiosity and creativity again. Building new things requires that we step back, understand what inspires us and match that with what the world needs; thats what we plan to do.

We remain excited for the future of Instagram and Facebook in the coming years as we transition from leaders to just two users in a billion. Thank you for being part of Instagrams …