When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet. — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
In 2010, the night before we launched 'Instagram v1', my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
In May of 2010, I joined Kevin Systrom, my co-founder, and we created 'Instagram', a mobile social network that today has over 15 million users. — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases. — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
I think the biggest challenge over time is that we stay creative and making sure that we continue to launch awesome products that people… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
