# Mike Krieger

Leadership · Labs co-lead at Anthropic · joined 2024

Co-founded Instagram, then Artifact. Joined as Chief Product Officer in 2024 and now co-leads Labs, the experimental products team.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/mike-krieger

**At Anthropic:**
- Jan 2026 – present: Member of Technical Staff, co-lead of Labs
- May 2024 – Jan 2026: Chief Product Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/861475/anthropic-ai-c-suite-internal-incubator-labs-team-mike-krieger)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Jun 2021 – May 2024: Artifact, Co-founder & CTO
- Jun 2010 – Oct 2018: Instagram, Co-founder & CTO
- Jan 2009 – May 2010: Meebo, User Experience Designer & Engineer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)

**Education:**
- MS, Symbolic Systems - Human-Computer Interaction, Stanford University, 2008
- BS, Symbolic Systems (Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science), Stanford University, 2008
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied symbolic systems at Stanford and was a Mayfield Fellow. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)
- Joined Figma's board in July 2025. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)
- Moved from Brazil to California in 2004 to study at Stanford. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)
- Worked as a user experience designer and engineer at Meebo, after a program manager internship at Microsoft. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)
- Grew Instagram's engineering team to more than 450 people. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/mike-krieger-joins-anthropic)
- Still follows two lessons from Instagram's first week in 2010: collect metrics before something breaks, and build runtime controls like feature flags. [1](https://ai.engineer/talks/qqrk7CtkuIw-anthropic-builds-lessons-from-labs)
- Ported a couple-hundred-thousand-line Python project to TypeScript over one weekend, with Claude checking the code. [1](https://ai.engineer/talks/qqrk7CtkuIw-anthropic-builds-lessons-from-labs)
- Resigned from Figma's board in April 2026, amid reports that Anthropic would offer a competing product. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [AI Engineer talk "How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs" (2026)](https://ai.engineer/talks/qqrk7CtkuIw-anthropic-builds-lessons-from-labs)
- [Every's AI & I podcast on how Anthropic uses Claude Fable 5 (2026)](https://every.to/podcast/transcript-how-anthropic-uses-claude-fable-5-with-mike-krieger)
- [Sources podcast interview on AI and health and the future of Claude (2026)](https://sources.news/p/anthropic-mike-krieger-interview-future-claude-ai)

**Known for:**
- Instagram (co-founded 2010)
- Rt.live (2020)
- Artifact (2023)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people