“Mike is chief product officer at Anthropic the company behind Claude. He's also the co-founder of Instagram.”
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Mike Krieger
Mike is chief product officer at Anthropic the company behind Claude. He's also the co-founder of Instagram.
1 episode · 1 sourced appearance
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Strategy4 steps
Build Only at the Magic Intersection
Don't ship what anyone could build off the shelf — build only where model and product uniquely meet.
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Entrepreneurship4 steps
Defensible Moats for AI Startups
Four durable places to build in AI where foundation-model labs are least likely to squash you.
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Productivity5 steps
Hunting New Bottlenecks When AI Writes the Code
When AI removes the coding bottleneck, constraints shift up and downstream — go find them.
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Communication4 steps
Make the Other Mistake (Prompting for Brutal Feedback)
To get honest AI critique, over-correct toward brutal — the model won't actually overshoot.
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Leadership4 steps
The 10-to-1 Input/Output Kill Test
When you pour 10 units of effort in for 1 unit of output, the project has run its course.
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Innovation4 steps
The Three-Part AI Product Utility Equation
A useful AI product needs model intelligence, context/memory, and application/UI to all converge.
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Resources in their episodes
- AI 2027
- Anthropic
- Anthropic Console Workbench
- Apple Podcasts
- Bolt
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Claude Code
- Claude Opus 4
- Cursor
- Google Gemini
- Google Reader
- Harvey
- Lenny's Newsletter
- Lenny's Podcast
- Lovable
- Microsoft Windows
- Model Context Protocol
- OneSchema FileFeeds 2.0
- OpenAI
- Productboard
- Prompt Improver
- Shopify
- Spotify
- Stripe
- SWE-bench
- The Goal
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