Mike Krieger

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Internet Paintings (Selfies), 2013, oil on canvas, 330 x 200 cm, Bogota, Colombia

co-founder of Instagram

text by AJA PECKNOLD
portraits by ANNABEL MEHRAN
artworks by MILTOS MANETAS

 

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is grinning. High on a hill in San Francisco, overlooking the glimmering city that helped place him on this lofty perch, his new home enjoys a sweeping view that would be enviable on anyone’s feed, filter or no. Our footsteps echo as we walk, the way they do in houses before they become a vessel that holds the stories of one’s life like an oak cask. Krieger has only just moved into this three-story, sun-filled Castro-district fantasy. How he got here reads like a young Silicon Valley programmer’s wet dream.

Mike Krieger

“It was one of those moments where my life flashed ahead, instead of behind me. I just…