Mike Krieger steered Anthropic's product strategy toward APIs over consumer apps
Mike Krieger · Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram) · Jun 5, 2025 · at 46:36
Mike Krieger explains why he prioritized enterprise and startup builders over building consumer-facing products upon joining Anthropic as CPO.
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“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 others to like who are building on top of the API. And then lately I've spent a lot more time with startups and seeing all the people that have, you know, grown off of that. And I think the next phase for me is like, let's go spend time with like the builders, the makers, the hackers, the tinkerers, and like, make sure we're serving them really well.”
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