&gt; <i>my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its first day in the wild. Kevin guessed 2,500, and in an especially optimistic moment, I went big and guessed 25,000. The next day, the realist in me couldn’t believe I had hit it on the nose.</i><p>That seems outrageous and amazing. Systrom had only ever worked at Google and then Nextstop, how could he have possibly had a network that large that early on to get that many people to download it?<p>How can someone reading this possibly think they can get 25,000 people to download their app on day 1? I feel like I&#x27;m missing something here.