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Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as CPO

By TechTaffy Desk

Anthropic has appointed Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, as its chief product officer. In this role, Mr. Krieger will oversee Anthropic’s product engineering, product management, and product design efforts, the company said in a statement.

Prior to joining Anthropic, Mr. Krieger spent three years building Artifact, a personalized news app, which was recently acquired by Yahoo. During his time at Instagram, Mr. Krieger grew the engineering team to over 450 people and helped scale the platform to more than a billion users.

[Image courtesy: Anthropic]

Update: May 23, 2024

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