#558: Ann Miura-Ko — The Path from Shyness to World-Class Debater and Investor (Repost)

Ann Miura-Ko — The Path from Shyness to World-Class
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“The main difference was that I was willing to outwork
and outdo every competitor who walked in through that
door.” — Ann Miura-Ko


Ann Miura-Ko (@annimaniac) has been called
“the most powerful woman in startups” by Forbes and is a lecturer
in entrepreneurship at Stanford. The child of a rocket scientist
at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in
technology startups from when she was a teenager. Prior to
co-founding Floodgate, she worked at Charles River
Ventures and McKinsey and Company. Some of Ann’s
investments include Lyft, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Refinery29, JoyRun,
TaskRabbit, and Modcloth.


Due to the success of her investments, she was on the 2017
Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. Ann is known for her
debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of
Champions and second in the State of California in high school)
and was part of a five-person team at Yale that competed in
the Robocup Competition in Paris, France. She has a
BSEE from Yale and a PhD from Stanford in math modeling of
computer security. She lives with her husband, three kids, and
one spoiled dog. Her interests are piano, robots, and gastronomy.


Please enjoy!


This episode originally aired in 2018. You can find the
show notes
here: https://tim.blog/2018/08/02/ann-miura-ko/


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