Why are the founders of Instagram stepping down?

The reason is Mark Zuckerberg.

He is not a bad person but he is a very good businessman who knows how to make money from anything in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram six years ago despite didn’t have a model for a buying a company that they would allow to run independently.

By June 2014, their service had grown 666 percents, to 200 million monthly users.

Mark and Sheryl Sandberg wanted to try out new features like videos and private messaging. so they can put advertisements there.

In that, at least, they were right. Instagram has grown like crazy. In June, it reached the one billion user mark. This year, it’s expected to bring in $6bn in advertising revenue, which means that it’s the biggest generator revenue within Facebook after the main news feed. One analyst thinks that Instagram will provide Facebook with $20bn by 2020, about a quarter of the company’s total revenue.

If Systrom and Krieger imagined that they would be left alone to run such a money pump within the Zuckerberg dictatorship they were delusional, especially given that for some time there were intimations of things to come. Earlier this year, for example, Facebook removed a shortcut link to Instagram from its bookmarks menu inside the Facebook app, thereby eliminating traffic that flowed from Facebook to Instagram.

whereas Systrom and Krieger originally reported directly to the Supreme Leader, a few months ago, Zuckerberg installed a layer of management between them and him, with the result that the boys found themselves reporting to Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer.

At which point it must have been clear that the writing was on the wall.

Reason - they were leaving after “growing tensions” over Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s increasing involvement in the day-to-day running of Instagram.