Ami Vora

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • Chief Product Officer2026 – present
   • Head of ProductDec 2025
2. 
   Faire

   • CPO2022–2024
3. 
   WhatsApp

   • VP, Product and Design2018–2022
4. 
   Instagram

   • Director, Instagram2013
5. 
   Facebook

   • Temp → VP Product2007–2022
6. 
   Microsoft

   • PM, Visual Studio & .NET2003–2006

Education

• BA in Computer Science, Harvard University

Lesser-known facts

• Helped scale Instagram while at Meta.
• Sits on Datadog's board.
• Started at Facebook as a temp and rose to VP of Product over about 15 years at the company.
• Was roughly employee 150 at Facebook, 33 at Instagram and 275 at WhatsApp.
• Built Instagram's first ads system and, as head of product for Facebook Ads, doubled its revenue to $55 billion a year.
• Writes The Hard Parts of Growth, a free newsletter she set out to make "the career guide I never had."
• Opened Code with Claude 2026, reporting that Claude API volume was up nearly 17x year over year.
• Said: "Everyone is more tired than we think. Nobody wants to learn a new thing."

Interviews and talks

• Code with Claude 2026 opening keynotedaniellevantini.com
• Lenny and Friends Summit panel with Mike Krieger on why Claude can't be your PM yet (2026)dealroom.co
• Leah Tharin podcast on unconventional lessons (2024)leahtharin.com