> have access to Adam D’Angelo (Facebook’s first CTO) when he had scaling problems with Instagram. It was even more fantastic than that. > “Who’s, like, the s

> have access to Adam D’Angelo (Facebook’s first CTO) when he had scaling problems with Instagram. It was even more fantastic than that. > “Who’s, like, the smartest person I know who I can call up?” Mr. Systrom remembered thinking. He scrolled through his phone and found his man: Adam D’Angelo, a former chief technology officer at Facebook. They had met at a party seven years earlier, over beers in red plastic cups, at the Sigma Nu fraternity at Stanford University. That night in October 2010, Mr. D’Angelo became Instagram’s lifeline. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/technology/instagram-founders-were-helped-by-bay-area-connections.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/technology/instagram-found...