Mike Krieger leads Anthropic Labs, Anthropic's team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities; Anthropic's October 2026 Claude Founder House event lists Krieger as Head of Anthropic Labs. Krieger joined Anthropic in May 2024 as Chief Product Officer, overseeing product engineering, product management and product design, and joined Labs in January 2026 after two years in that role. Before Anthropic, Krieger co-founded Instagram and served as its CTO, and later spent three years building Artifact, a personalized news app acquired by Yahoo. A July 2026 Anthropic article describes Krieger, as co-lead of Anthropic Labs, migrating a Python codebase to TypeScript with Claude Code over a weekend.1234
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- Head of Anthropic Labs
- Company
- Anthropic
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- Company
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Career
Krieger co-founded Instagram and served as its chief technology officer, building and scaling its engineering team. Krieger then spent three years building Artifact, a personalized news app, before the app was acquired by Yahoo.3
Krieger joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer in May 2024, overseeing product engineering, product management and product design as the company expanded its enterprise applications. In January 2026, Anthropic expanded Labs, its team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities, and Krieger moved from the product leadership role to build in Labs alongside Ben Mann.32
Products and projects
A July 2026 Anthropic article on AI-assisted code migration describes Krieger, as co-lead of Anthropic Labs, porting a Python codebase for an internal tool to TypeScript over a weekend with Claude Code, using many agents, phase gates and adversarial review rounds. The port cut the tool's compile step from minutes to seconds and let the team retire a separate deployment pipeline.4
In October 2026, Krieger was listed as Head of Anthropic Labs at Anthropic's Claude Founder House San Francisco event, in a fireside conversation with David Rosenthal of the Acquired podcast about start-ups building on Claude.1
Work and contributions
Anthropic Labs
Joined Labs, Anthropic's team for incubating experimental products built on Claude, in January 2026; Anthropic's October 2026 event page lists Krieger as Head of Anthropic Labs.21
Anthropic products (as Chief Product Officer) Proprietary product
Anthropic's May 2024 announcement says Krieger would oversee its product engineering, product management and product design efforts as the company expanded its enterprise applications and brought Claude to a wider audience.3
Instagram Proprietary product
Co-founder and CTO of Instagram, according to Anthropic's announcement of Krieger's appointment.3
Timeline
- Joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer.3
- Joined Anthropic Labs, the company's team for incubating experimental products built on Claude.2
- Was described in an Anthropic article migrating a Python codebase to TypeScript with Claude Code.4
- Was listed as Head of Anthropic Labs for a fireside conversation at Anthropic's Claude Founder House San Francisco event.1
Other documented roles
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Where they work
- Anthropic 34 people in the wiki
Related people
- Diederik P. KingmaAlso at Anthropic
- Ben MannAlso at Anthropic
- Boris ChernyAlso at Anthropic
- Olivier ChafikAlso at Anthropic
- Paul SmithAlso at Anthropic
- Radoslav GerganovBuilders & open source
- Cully CavnessBuilders & open source
- Lorenzo StellaBuilders & open source
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4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026