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Michael Mignano - Co-Founder of Anchor and Venture Capitalist
Season 1, Ep. 7
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In this week's episode, I have the pleasure of catching up with Michael Mignano, co-founder of Anchor and now venture capitalist at Lightspeed.
We talk about Michael's rock band roots and delve into the parallels between art, music, and company building. We discuss the future of AI and how it has the potential to revolutionize the way we discover and create content, among many other topics.
You can find Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mignano
And Joe on his personal site: joe.univer.se
Thanks for listening!
Joe
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