Bill Young

Bill Young (Econ), an international pilot, stays in a lot of hotel rooms. To document the interesting carpet patterns he sees all over the world, he started an Instagram account called @MyHotelCarpet. In November his daughter, Jill, posted the account to her own Instagram page and called for it to have more followers. Her request went viral, and within a few days, 536,000 people followed his page. The story was covered by several major news outlets, including ABC News and Buzzfeed. Bill lives in Dallas with his family.