Mike Krieger
21 statements across 5 episodes · 11 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2024 by Mike Krieger · said 29 times in 13 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2025 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
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2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Mike Krieger, oldest first
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Krieger: Anthropic is training Claude to teach users its own features
“One thing we're trying to get better at, and that's also letting the product be like educational in a very literal way, which is like the thing we did not do early and now we're changing is just tell Claude more about itself, which was like, you know, it's in …”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Krieger: Best product managers rapidly prototype UI designs directly using AI models
“I think prototyping with these models is a thing that is underused. Like, our best PMs do this, where we'll get in some long conversation about, like, should the UI be this or that, and before our designers have even, like, picked up their Figma, like, our, of…”
Nov 6, 2024
Krieger compares internal AI research disruptions to Apple WWDC announcements
“It's the thing it most reminds me of like from the Instagram days where like Apple, like WWC announcements, you're like, this could either be awesome for us or could like absolutely like cause chaos for it. It's like that, but your own company is the one kind …”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Nov 6, 2024
Krieger: AI benchmark evals often contain flawed ground-truth answers
“And some of these model these evals we've seen, like, even the golden answer, I'm like, I'm not sure a human would say it, or, like, I think that math is actually a little wrong, like, getting a hundred percent is gonna be really hard, because even just gradin…”
Jun 5, 2025 neutral
Jun 5, 2025
Krieger: Without market momentum, startups get one unit of output per ten inputs
“This concurrent incarnation we love, but it's like not growing. Like the way I put it, it's like 10 units of input in for one unit of output versus the other way around. Like if we like put blood, sweat and tears into the product and like Launch something we w…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Krieger: Startups need repeatable evals for drop-in model testing
“Like one is pushing the frontier of the models and then having a repeatable process. This actually goes back to our summit conversation, like a repeatable way to evaluate how well your product is serving those use cases and how well, if you drop a new model in…”
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Krieger: Major strategy and product pivots are extremely difficult for remote teams
“And I think there were like major shifts that we would have wanted to make it both in the strategy and the product and the team. And it's really hard to do that. If you are all fully remote, like nothing replaces like the Instagram days”
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Krieger: News apps struggle to achieve the organic virality of photo networks
“Instagram spread in the early days because people would take photos and then post them on other networks and tell friends about it. And there was like this really natural, like, how did you do that? I want to do it. News was very personal. Like I can't tell me…”
Jun 5, 2025 neutral
Anthropic rebuilt its merge queue because AI generated too much code
“We really rapidly became bottlenecked on other things like our merge queue, which is the sort of sort of get in line to get your change accepted by you know, the system that then deploys it to production. We had to completely re architect it because so much mo…”
Jun 5, 2025
Mike Krieger steered Anthropic's product strategy toward APIs over consumer apps
“I came in, everybody expected me to just like go super, super hard on consumer and make that the thing. And I again would make the other mistake. Instead, I spent a bunch of time talking to like financial services companies and insurance companies and like oth…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Optimizing AI models for likability risks creating sycophancy, says Mike Krieger
“It would be very dangerous to over optimize on like Claude's likability, you know, because you can fall into things like, you know, is Claude gonna be sycophantic? Is Claude gonna tell you what you hear? Is Claude going to like prolong conversations just for p…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Krieger: Anthropic embeds product teams directly in post-training research workflows
“The functional unit of work at Anthropic is no longer like take the model and then like go like work with design and product to go ship a product. It's more like we are at like, we're in the post-training conversations around how these things should work. And …”
Jun 5, 2025 bullish
Anthropic's Claude Code team uses Claude to write and review itself
“The team that works in the most futuristic way is the Claude code team, because they're using Claude code to build Claude code in a very self-improving kind of way. And, you know, early on in that project, they would do very line by line pull request reviews, …”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Mike Krieger says AI products should measure task completion, not engagement
“I don't have a great answer yet, but I think that like, it's not the web two O or even the social media days, like engagement metrics, you know, it should hopefully really be around Like, did it actually help you get your work done?”
Jun 22, 2025 positive
Deng: Indecision harms startups more than being wrong with conviction
“Having a strong point of view is really important because like, you know, there's a saying that Mike and Kevin had it at Instagram, which is we may not be right, but at least we're not confused. I think that just, it was, it's a beautiful phrase. I thought, be…”
Jul 3, 2025 positive