Mike Krieger

Mike Krieger co-founded Instagram and later became chief product officer at Anthropic, where he shapes how Claude turns into products people actually use. His move is part of a pattern of consumer-product veterans joining AI labs to bridge the gap between a capable model and a usable tool.

That gap is where a lot of the real work now sits: the model matters, but so does whether ordinary people can get value out of it without a manual.