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Mike Krieger
Chief Product Officer at Anthropic
San Francisco, California
Overview
Mike Krieger is the co-founder of Instagram and currently serves as the Chief Product Officer at Anthropic. He has a strong background in entrepreneurship, product development, and user experience, with notable achievements including co-founding Artifact and investing in a range of successful companies like Figma and Blue Bottle Coffee.
Work Experience
Chief Product Officer
2024 - Current
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.
Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.
Co-founder & CTO
2021 - 2024
Artifact is an AI-driven news aggregation platform.
Co-founder & CTO
2010 - 2018
Kevin Systrom & I started Instagram in mid-2010, and both designed & developed the application. I've spent the last few years scaling the Instagram engineering team into a 450+ person organization, now within FB.
Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Raised $57,500,000.00 from Greylock, Thrive Capital, Baseline Ventures, DST Global, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital.
User Experience Designer & Engineer
2009 - 2010
Prototyped & tested several new products. Later transitioned to designing & developing the internal & external stats and visualization tools for our partners.
Meebo is a consumer internet company that offers a social media platform to develop products for enhancing user engagement across the web.
Raised $70,000,000.00 from Warner Media, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Icon Ventures.
Advising Fellow
2006 - 2008
Organizing events, presentations, and other activities related to Symbolic Systems, a Stanford interdisciplinary program that unites Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics. Holding office hours for current majors and prospective students to receive advice about the major and related classes.
Oral Communications Tutor
2005 - 2008
One-on-one sessions with students who have upcoming presentations in their classes, as well as class visits to explain broader points about Oral Communications. Also, through this position and my work at Microsoft, I've been invited to speak at Oral Communications-centered courses on the art and science of visual aids and effective use of slideware.
Product Development Intern
2007 - 2007
Designing and implementing features for next-gen search engine. Took features from paper prototypes to implementation in Python/JS/HTML.
Program Manager Intern
2006 - 2006
Coordinated feature teams (Program Manager, Test, and Development) to implement and polish features in PowerPoint and OfficeArt. Work focused on accessibility, photo import with the Photo Album, and successful management of features as product moved towards ship date. Several features already shipped as part of the Beta 2 Technical Refresh.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.