Hey everybody, it's you know I from the Vergecast on this week's interview episode

We've got something a little bit different our own Casey Newton held an interface live event with Sarah Fryer

She's a Bloomberg reporter and the author of no filter the inside story of Instagram

It's a new book just came out chronicles Instagram's founding its growth. It's buy out by Facebook

It's meteoric growth inside of Facebook and the eventual split of its founders after some disagreements

With Mark Zuckerberg super interesting book great conversation between Casey and Sarah

Thank you to the hundreds of people who tuned into the interface live

We're gonna do way more of those but check it out. It's Casey Newton and Sarah Fryer talking about her book no filter the inside story of Instagram

Alright, hello good evening

Good morning depending on where you are in the world. I'm Casey Newton. I'm the Silicon Valley editor at the Verge

And I want to welcome you to the first ever virtual

Interface live last year we started an event series where I started talking to some of the most interesting newsmakers

And writers who are on this beat of social media platforms democracy and for a long time

I've been looking forward to what we are about to do tonight

My guest tonight is Sarah Fryer. She is a spectacular reporter at Bloomberg and for the past few years

She's been working on a book about the history of Instagram

It came out last week and it is fantastic

It's called no filter the inside story of Instagram tonight. We're going to talk all about it

We're going to have some poll questions for you to answer to make sure you're still paying attention and

Throughout tonight's talk you can submit questions using the Q&A feature in Zoom and Zoe Schiffer my colleague at the interface will pick those

Pick through those and figure out which are going to be some interesting ones for Sarah and I to get into so it's going to be a lot of fun

Thank you for joining and why don't we go ahead and bring Sarah into the Zoom Sarah? Are you there?

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