Krieger: Social talent in AI reflects prior concentration of product talent
Mike Krieger · Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating · Oct 8, 2025 · at 31:22
Mike Krieger (CPO of Anthropic and Instagram co-founder) explains why many top AI product leaders previously worked at companies like Meta and Twitter.
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“I think it's less that there's a lot of social media sort of oriented folks that have now moved into AI. It's more that I think a lot of the best product people were focused on that, you know, even four years ago, you know, pre-chat GPT you know, pre the emergence of a lot of these LLMs. So I think it's sort of like the most recent place that concentrated, I find that that often happens, like the concentration of talent among a particular discipline. And I think that was social media beforehand.”
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