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Mike Krieger

Co-lead of Labs; formerly Chief Product Officer; Co-founder of Instagram, Anthropic

Search every verified Mike Krieger interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and Chief Product Officer at Anthropic, discussed his work co-leading Anthropic Labs in several public appearances between August and October 2026. At the Sierra CXO Summit, he described the lab's evolution from a small team in 2024 to its current structure, where small groups work on experimental projects called "bets" that may be wound down if they do not succeed. He also spoke about the importance of teaching people to use AI tools more aggressively and predicted that AI agents transacting on behalf of companies will become common, suggesting that approval flows similar to Stripe Link could help manage that shift. At Atlantico Tech Talks, he noted that innovation in larger companies often comes from small teams of two or three people and that the main constraint for builders is deciding where to invest time and resources rather than technical capability. At Dreamforce 2026, Krieger discussed his daily workflow, including using Claude to monitor launch readiness channels and prepare product releases, and reflected on raising children in the age of AI, saying he encourages curiosity and finding a personal passion. In a separate talk on how Anthropic builds, he described using Claude to port hundreds of thousands of lines of Python to TypeScript over a weekend and emphasized the value of rapid prototyping and openly discussing emotions when projects fail. He also referenced lessons from his pre-Instagram product Bourbon, noting that adding features does not guarantee success.

Recent appearances

  • Sierra CXO Summit: Lessons Learned at the Frontier with Anthropic Labs’ Mike Krieger

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 SIERRA Ventures

    Mike Krieger has been in the room for more than one major shift in tech. He co-founded Instagram, one of the most popular consumer products ever built, and stayed on as CTO after the Facebook acquisition, helping it grow past one billion users. In 2024, he joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer, leading product at one of the most influential companies in AI during one of the most pivotal stretches our industry has seen. Today he co-leads Anthropic Labs, the incubator behind Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol, where the team builds for where the models are going, not where they are…

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  • Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    What does product management look like when AI changes what teams can build every few months? At the Lenny and Friends Summit, Anthropic’s Ami Vora and Mike Krieger join Dan Shipper to discuss why understanding users, making good decisions, and adapting quickly remain essential to the PM role. They also explore software designed for agents, running experiments in parallel, and bringing the ideas that work into a product people can use. Recorded live at Lenny and Friends Summit on September 10, 2026, in San Francisco.

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  • Mike Krieger (Anthropic) at Atlantico Tech Talks

    September 28, 2026 · 📺 Atlantico

    // This conversation was held in Portuguese, but you can turn on English subtitles for translation: click on the gear icon below the video; subtitles; portuguese; subtitles; auto-translate; english // Mike Krieger is probably one of the most experienced Brazilians building technology at the frontier of artificial intelligence. After co-founding Instagram, he joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer and then rolled up his sleeves to build new products at the helm of Anthropic Labs. Mike participated in the Atlantico Tech Talks series directly from his home in San Francisco, alongside Julio V…

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  • TIME100: Inside Anthropic | Mike Krieger, Dreamforce 2026

    September 17, 2026 · 📺 Salesforce

    ‪@TIME‬'s Sam Jacobs joins ‪@anthropic-ai‬ CPO Mike Krieger for a candid conversation on building AI responsibly, balancing innovation with human agency, and shaping technology’s next chapter. Learn more about Agentforce: https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/ Check out our guide on artificial intelligence (AI): https://www.salesforce.com/artificial... _______ This video comes to you from Dreamforce 2026, the conference that helps you unlock unprecedented success with the power of trusted AI Agents, real-time data, and CRM. This is where you become an Agentic Enterprise. Watch Marc Benioff'…

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  • How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs — Mike Krieger, Anthropic

    August 27, 2026 · 📺 AI Engineer

    Over a single weekend, Mike Krieger had Claude port a few hundred thousand lines of Python to TypeScript, verify it, and churn ...

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  • WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield ft. Garry Tan, Mike Krieger, @t3dotgg , DSPy

    July 03, 2026 · 📺 AI Engineer

    Live from San Francisco, AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 wraps with the final day of main-stage programming. Watch live for keynote sessions, featured talks, and closing-day highlights from World’s Fair 2026 as AI Engineer streams the final day of the event online. Event: AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 Date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 Venue: Moscone West, San Francisco Schedule highlights: • 90m Keynotes: 9:00 AM–10:30 AM PT • Main programming: 10:45 AM–12:25 PM PT • Main programming: 1:30 PM–4:05 PM PT • 60m Keynotes + Startup Battlefield + Wrap-up: 4:30 PM–5:30 PM PT Learn more about the event:…

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  • Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast

    June 26, 2026 · 📺 Alex Kantrowitz

    Featuring (in order of appearance): Aaron Levie — Co-founder & CEO, Box Anissa Gardizy — AI Infrastructure Reporter, The Information Max Cherney — Chip Reporter, Reuters Lauren Goode — Senior Writer, Wired Dallas Dolen — TMT Leader, PwC Ranjan Roy — Big Technology Alex Stamos — Former CSO, Meta / Chief Product Officer, Corridor Mike Krieger — Co-founder of Instagram & Lead of Anthropic Labs Greg Brockman — President & Co-founder, OpenAI — The first-ever Big Technology AI Summit, recorded live at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club on June 18, 2026, days after the federal government forced Anth…

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  • Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger

    June 25, 2026 · 📺 Alex Kantrowitz

    Mike Krieger is the head of Anthropic Labs and co-founder of Instagram. Krieger joins Big Technology Podcast live from the Big Technology AI Summit to discuss what it's like inside Anthropic the week the government forced the company to pull its frontier models, Fable and Mythos, off the market. Tune in to hear Krieger describe how working with Fable changed the way he builds — queuing up a full night of work before bed and waking to find it finished in an hour — why he insists Anthropic's safety warnings are material rather than marketing, and how Anthropic navigates being both a platform and…

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  • Building Is the Easy Part Now | Mike Krieger on What AI Changed

    March 25, 2026 · 📺 Every

    Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of determining what makes a breakout AI-native product as co-lead of Anthropic Labs. Dan Shipper talked with Krieger for Every’s AI & I about how his experience creating Instagram shapes how he thinks about building with AI, including what can be sped up and what remains stubbornly time-intensive. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscri…

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  • Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger's guide to the AI galaxy in 2025

    March 24, 2026 · 📺 Ashit Ghevaria

    Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger's guide to the AI galaxy in 2025.

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  • A deep dive with Mike Krieger from Anthropic

    February 17, 2026 · 📺 Dreamer

    Mike Krieger (Anthropic Labs) sits down with Dreamer co-founders Hugo Barra and David Singleton for an in-depth conversation about Dreamer; a platform where anyone can discover, build, and enjoy AI agents and agentic apps. From personalized dashboards and composable software to the Claude Agent SDK powering it all, this conversation covers how Dreamer is making building agents accessible to everyone, not just developers. See live demos of agents built by the community, a live building session with the Sidekick, and hear the vision behind a new era of personal, intelligent software. Join the…

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  • Enterprise & AI | Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer, Anthropic & Jeetu Patel

    February 07, 2026 · 📺 Cisco

    Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer, @Anthropic discusses how AI is moving from assistant to agent and what, changes occur when systems act, experiments accelerate, and confidence becomes the hardest problem. Related links: Explore the full agenda and watch all sessions → https://www.ciscoaisummit.com/ai-virt... Discover how Cisco is transforming industries with cutting-edge technology and business-driven innovation. Learn more: Cisco Official Site → https://www.cisco.com/?dtid=osclytb00... Cisco Products & Services → https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/prod... Cisco Solutions → https:…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“Cloud is written by Claude — Claude products and cloud code are being entirely written by Claude; for most products in Anthropic it's effectively 100%.”

“You want autonomy, but you want autonomy in a sandbox with the right sort of abstractions around when it goes off and when information flows in and out.”

“I was talking to somebody who runs technology at a large bank and he was telling me that they had to rethink not just the data storage piece which they had already been doing a lot of work on but also the sort of data annotation and lineage piece to be more AI friendly so that when you asked Claude to help me construct a dashboard or help me understand this data query even having that additional layer of annotation o”

“We open-sourced a protocol for how models interact with the world because we want this to be an open standard with known authentication and security, rather than an agentic free-for-all which could be more dangerous.”

“The capabilities were ready and could have been launched, but the estimated launch date was a week before the election and we decided we could not put out a model that could use computers without being thoughtful about the fact there's an election in the world's largest democracy, so we spent time on the trust and safety side and delayed the launch by a couple weeks.”

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