Who is the owner of Instagram?

Kevin Systrom launched Instagram in 2010. Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock in 2012, and Systrom stayed on to continue running it. He left Facebook in 2018. Systrom, who owned 40% of Instagram going into the deal, mostly got Facebook stock. Mark Zuckerberg is one of the co-founders of Facebook and currently serves as its CEO. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012, and it operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc. Adam Mosseri is the head of Instagram where he oversees all functions of the app including engineering, product, and operations. Instagram online social media platform, and social network service for photograph and video sharing. The app was launched in 2010 by cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and it is now owned by Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of Facebook.