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Mike Krieger

Chief Product Officer, Anthropic · 3 appearances on the record.

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Mike Krieger co-founded Instagram in 2010 alongside Kevin Systrom, serving as its Chief Technology Officer through its acquisition by Facebook. In 2024, after co-founding the AI-powered news platform Artifact, he joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mike argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Krieger: Instagram was Facebook's first acquisition allowed to operate independently
“We were the first company that Facebook acquired and sort of kept running, and then since then you've seen Oculus and WhatsApp, and, ah, I think there were a lot of things that we figured out early on in terms of the relationship, the office space, hiring and …”
Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 22:13 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Mike Krieger on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Mike Krieger said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Krieger felt guilty leaving Instagram during the platform's public backlash
“I saw it less like, you know, the tide is changing, therefore it's time for us to leave, and in fact, it was like the other side, like, ugh, like, maybe, not to sound conceited, but like, maybe this is when we could be most needed and that was definitely like …”
Mike Krieger Dec 19, 2019 ▶ 9:29 Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
Insight
Krieger: End users don't care about your startup's valuation or funding
“Your valuation and the amount you raise, it can be helpful in building your product, but it does absolutely nothing. People, end users don't care at all how much money you've raised. They care if you're providing some kind of value”
Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 16:16 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
Assertion Supported
Krieger: Instagram was Facebook's first acquisition allowed to operate independently
“We were the first company that Facebook acquired and sort of kept running, and then since then you've seen Oculus and WhatsApp, and, ah, I think there were a lot of things that we figured out early on in terms of the relationship, the office space, hiring and …”
Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 22:13 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
Disclosure
Krieger recommitted to Instagram annually by assessing learning and impact
“I used to tell the team very openly, like every year, you know, I would sit down and like sort of recommit to Instagram and say like, am I still learning? Is this still exciting? I still feel like I can have impact. Or is it time for the next chapter?”
Mike Krieger Dec 19, 2019 ▶ 4:48 Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
Assertion Supported
Instagram launched without a block feature but built one within days
“Like, we didn't launch with a block feature, because we didn't need it at the beginning, or didn't think we needed it, and they're like, I don't want this guy on my Instagram, and we're like, oh yeah, that makes sense, and I think we had that out in like two o…”
Mike Krieger Dec 19, 2019 ▶ 13:23 Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
Insight
Krieger: Early users at an app launch set the community culture
“So we had this intuition that if you're going to throw a party, which is kind of what an app launch really is as people are streaming to the door, you want them to sort of know how they should act and who else is there.”
Mike Krieger Nov 13, 2017 ▶ 12:09 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krieger: Instagram seeded pre-launch beta invites to Dribbble designers and journalists
“So one of the things we did was we have you have a hundred sort of Invites that you can have before you launch your app to the Apple store where you can invite people to try it out. And we're like, how are we going to use these hundred people? And we use them …”
Mike Krieger Nov 13, 2017 ▶ 12:20 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
Insight
Krieger: Dropping app descriptive tags in press signals mainstream cultural arrival
“I noticed that the New York Times, when they would cover us, had stopped saying Instagram, comma, The photo sharing app, and then it was just Instagram. I'm like, oh, we are, we have now reached the point where they can assume that most of their readers know w…”
Mike Krieger Nov 13, 2017 ▶ 20:23 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
Assertion Supported
Krieger: Instagram was the first company Facebook acquired and kept running
“We were the first company that Facebook acquired and sort of kept running, and then since then you've seen Oculus and WhatsApp”
Mike Krieger Nov 13, 2017 ▶ 22:41 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
Insight
Krieger: Launching an app is like setting social norms at a party
“So we had this intuition that if you're going to throw a party, which is kind of what an app launch really is as people are streaming to the door, you want them to sort of know how they should act and who else is there.”
Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 11:38 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krieger: We seeded Instagram's beta by emailing Dribbble's top 10 designers
“So we picked basically the 10 top designers on Dribbble, and we emailed them, and some ignored us, which is fine, and some wrote back and said, sure, I'll try your app.”
Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 12:27 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
Opinion
Krieger: Burbn's check-ins failed, but the visual status feature sparked Instagram
“And bourbon the check-in in itself I didn't find as compelling, but having a sort of visual status was really compelling.”
Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 ▶ 4:30 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger

The other half of the tape: Mike Krieger's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 12 times in 8 episodes on How I Built This. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Mike Krieger, by other people (2)

Disclosure
Systrom left Facebook due to exhaustion and desire for new projects
“That's why I think we ended up leaving, because you want a little break and recovery time, and then my personality is such that I'm excited about doing something new. Like, I, I'm just like, I'm always on to some new idea, And I don't know, it probably won't b…”
Kevin Systrom Dec 19, 2019 ▶ 7:59 Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
Insight
Systrom: Smartphone cameras would spark a visual communication revolution
“The fact that like these devices had a camera that would lead to a visual communication revolution where like all of a sudden people weren't just communicating with text and voice, but they had the chance to communicate with an image.”
Kevin Systrom Nov 13, 2017 ▶ 2:28 Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)

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Appearances (3)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram Dec 19, 2019 6m
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017) Nov 13, 2017 5m
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 5m
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