Benjamin Wachenje
Title: Co-founder and CEO, Instagram, now owned by Facebook
Born: December 30, 1983, Holliston, Massachusetts
Education: BS in management science and engineering, Stanford University
Early Marker: Spent two years after college at Google, working on Gmail and Google Reader and in corporate development.
Big Idea: Founded photo-sharing app Instagram, which sold to Facebook in 2012 for $715 million. Continues to run the company independently of Facebook and sees a relationship with its owner similar to YouTube's with its parent, Google.
Wave of the Future: Social media, visual Web, App-economy, M-economy
