Quotes by Mike Krieger

About Mike Krieger:

Michel "Mike" Krieger is a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram with Kevin Systrom. Born in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Krieger moved to California in 2004 to attend Stanford University. At Stanford, where he studied symbolic systems, he met Kevin Systrom. The two co-founded Instagram in 2010. He made the updates for Instagram for the first 3 years it was public. He is engaged to Kaitlyn Trigger.
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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 maintenance folks at school.

Mike Krieger

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

Mike Krieger

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 it is until you finally launch.

Mike Krieger

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

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

Mike Krieger

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 I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second ...

Mike Krieger

Author Bio

  • NameMike Krieger
  • DescriptionBusinessperson
  • BornMarch 4, 1986
  • CountryBrazil
  • ProfessionEngineer