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Ann Miura-Ko 🦖
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Ann Miura-Ko 🦖
@annimaniac
VC 🥷🏼 in pre-seed and seed (SmarterDX, Lyft, Okta, Hebbia, Nooks, Terradot). Checks $500k-$5M. Yale, Stanford PhD, Mayfield Fellows ann.vc
Fixed my @X feed and deleted everyone talking politics and focused on researchers, builders and tinkerers and suddenly this is my happy place again- 1/ Ever seen a company where customers loved the product but the company STILL failed? Over 10 years I’ve seen this way too many times. It’s caused me to question whether the importance product market fit is a myth. Check this out 👇
- Is there anyone who can help us find manufacturing capabilities for a plexiglass box called an aerosol box to protect doctors when they are intubating patients? I will have specific specs soon but want to find manufacturing asap! Can be small quantities for now near SF
- Startups that buck the trend and commit to in person are more likely to hire great young talent. I’m seeing talented young engineers say they are “done with remote”
- My dad passed away last night. Hirokazu Miura was known to me as Yayan and to his friends as Hiro (pronounced hero) (1/6)
- 1/ Many founders focus on what they think is product market fit when they really need to strive for a Minimum Viable Company. Recently, Brandless (raised $292M) shut down and it serves as an example of what I talk about here (full version this time):
- I just changed my profile name to Dr. Ann Miura-Ko. I am not an MD
- Consumer is at such an interesting moment and as an investor I’m always frustrated we are not seeing more wildly creative ideas given LLMs. We are seeing too much focus on how to generate more content without thought on what people also may want to consume. Because there isToo many startups/investors are exploring the b2b opportunities with LLMs and not enough are exploring the consumer opportunities. This is the moment consumer founders have been waiting for.
- Who are the very best pre-seed venture firms?
- I've never cooked so much in my life. Feeding a family of 5 3x a day is a full time job. How am I supposed to home school AND work?!?
- Replying to @annimaniacBut perhaps his crowning achievement was being a grand-dad to kids who adored him. Maybe the real lesson is be someone others can look up to (6/6)
- Spent some time this weekend asking the principals of my kids’ schools to take the time to talk about Anti-Asian Violence. My kids have had other kids call them derogatory names in the last year in school. In Menlo Park. #StopAsianHate
- I find it to be the ultimate dude move when someone I'm having a disagreement with offers to talk to @m2jr for me to explain what I'm not understanding. Yeah thanks but I think I have my big girl pants on today.
