34 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.

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

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.