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Michael Mignano

@mignano102k followers

General Partner @USV. Building @Supertake. Co-Founder Anchor (acq. by Spotify) and @OboeLabs. Early investor in @meetgranola, @suno, @xai, others.

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1Feb 6, '25Deep Research marks the first time I've been convinced that AGI is already here. The discussion is over.136×2.1M1.8k100384
2Sep 28Introducing @Supertake, a new platform that transforms your unique takes on the world into real, shareable investment portfolios using frontier AI and trading agents. Supertake mak127×1.9M3k1512.9k
3Sep 10, '25Introducing Oboe. Out now. Human beings are getting stupider. We all know it. Meanwhile, we’ve spent trillions to make the most incredible technology in the history of humanity, an96×1.5M2.5k1962.6k
4Feb 27, '25Technology is not a moat. Never has been. There are so many examples of incumbents copying startup’s technology and leveraging their distribution to crush competition. And AI codin26.9×410k1.1k129693
5Feb 24, '25People are underestimating what will happen to software as a result of AI. Most are focused on how it'll make creating software incrementally easier, faster, cheaper. Few are discu24×366k2.5k2771.7k
6Nov 28, '23Today, @lightspeedvp is announcing that we’re leading a $35M Series A in @pika_labs, the company that’s redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience with AI. Founded 23.4×356k1.1k89382
7Jan 5, '25First time I'm seeing these xAI chips directly embedded in posts. Super helpful feature, I expect it will drive massive distribution of Grok. Nicely done @elonmusk and @xai team.16.3×249k3871340
8Feb 22, '231/ Today, @lightspeedvp is announcing that we’re leading a $43m Series B in @MagicalTome, the AI-powered storytelling format & fastest-growing productivity co to reach 1M users13.5×207k47955284
9Mar 19, '25$0 to $100M ARR in X months is a vanity metric. Not saying all these fast growing AI products aren’t impressive, but that stat doesn’t say a whole lot more than explosive DAU metri10.8×165k47331224
10Feb 12, '25Agents are cool and the tech behind Operator and Computer Use is super impressive. But I'm not convinced there are tons of super obvious consumer use cases... yet. That's why every9.9×150k89049605
11Sep 5, '24Had to buy out his Intro calendar to pull this off9.3×142k697933
12Sep 6, '24More news: we at @lightspeedvp are officially searching for the best early-career VC you know to join our consumer team full-time, alongside my partners & me (including @nikita9.3×141k45218167
13Apr 8, '25Bet on people who have a motor. If someone is constantly in motion, there's a good chance they're going to find the heat eventually.8.9×136k92590229
14Feb 6, '19Today is a historic moment for podcasting: We're combining the power of @Anchor's next-generation podcasting tools with the strength of @Spotify, the most forward-thinking audio co8.4×01k14718
15Jul 31, '24Bashing and @AviSchiffmann is lazy and classless. Shut up and let the man cook. Regardless of what you think of this product, it's provocative, opinionated, and a big idea. We need8.2×124k320743
16Jan 21, '22Welp, guess NFT PFP’s finally got me. Thanks, @doodles community, psyched to be here.8.0×01.2k604
17Apr 8, '25Huge opportunity no one is talking about: AI’s accountability layer. It’s easy to manage humans. Way harder to manage dozens, hundreds, thousands, or millions of agents. How will y7.8×120k90265702
18Sep 5, '24Some news: today, we at @lightspeedvp are welcoming @nikitabier — the internet's undisputed king of virality — to our partnership and consumer team as a Product Growth Partner. In 7.8×119k94021127
19Apr 19, '231/ Some news: today, we at @lightspeedvp are introducing Generative NYC, a new, recurring IRL meetup dedicated to bringing together the AI community (engineers, designers, PMs, fou7.5×115k34435123
20Mar 11, '25You probably don't have PMF. At some point, nearly every founder prematurely believes they have PMF (product market fit) before they actually do. This happens at least once in almo7.2×110k44532466
21Nov 12, '25Introducing Out of Office, a new show from @lightspeedvp. For this first episode, I'm joined by @Casey. We walk the streets of NYC and talk about how AI, for better or worse, is go6.4×97k36221137
22Sep 25, '24I wrote about how AI is breaking the business model that funded the internet, and why the open web will never be the same.6.3×96k36335242
23May 21, '25The moats of the best AI products have absolutely nothing to do with AI.6.1×93k3382067
24Feb 13, '25Mike Krieger (@mikeyk) is the CPO of @AnthropicAI ($10B+ raised) and the co-founder of Instagram, which he sold to Meta for $1B. Here's the full video of my recent conversation wit5.6×86k41632692
25Jun 16, '211/ Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the world to @Spotify Greenroom: a new space for creators and fans to talk about Music, Sports, and Culture.5.5×06616352
26Jan 10, '25cold emails = good cold text and phone calls = insane if someone suggests you cold text a CEO, VC, etc - run far away.5.4×82k497891
27Jan 22, '25“Wrapper” isn’t a dirty word. It means a product build on top of a technology. Startups that focus on the opposite are far less durable. I’m looking forward to seeding more simple 4.9×74k29114113
28Oct 14, '201/ Today, I’m thrilled to announce that @Anchor is introducing a first-ever for audio creation: the ability to combine talk segments with full length music tracks from @Spotify’s c4.8×04736455
29Apr 27, '211/ Today, we’re thrilled to be launching @Spotify Paid Subscriptions, enabling creators to stand up their own podcast subscription businesses on @anchor. This marks a new era for p4.5×05046847
30Mar 16, '25Garry is right. Here’s the explanation for why this happens: when companies get really big, they recognize they are slower than they should be because it’s hard to mobilize so many4.5×69k1439132
31Mar 14, '20What are some things people can do at home/online to make money instead of their normal, in-person, hourly-paying jobs that don’t translate to WFH? Friend of my is in this situatio4.5×028169140
32May 14, '25Making your startup build/ship/move faster typically requires a rewrite of your company culture. I've found the easiest way to do this is to create a team wide habit of (respectful4.4×68k18910133
33Mar 5, '25Speed has always been a startup's #1 superpower, but the pace at which "AI native" teams are moving right now is truly insane. Their secret? It's not really a secret. They just use4.4×67k40343441
34Jul 17, '25The browser sees everything. This is the reason we’re getting so many new AI-first browsers from The Browser Co, Perplexity, and soon OpenAI. So they can “see” data that they incre4.4×66k40639273
35Nov 4, '24Some news: we at @lightspeedvp are very excited to be partnering with @dens on his new startup, Hopscotch Labs (alongside other great investors @alpacavc and @betaworks). Dennis is4.3×66k221782
36Jul 31, '24Nothing more pathetic than someone who’s never built something publicly criticizing the work of someone who has.4.3×65k4652432
37Apr 2, '25Trend I'm increasingly hearing discussed among younger relatives, friends, etc: People in their late teens or early twenties are increasingly thinking about two paths (which are no4.1×63k36020172
39Nov 6, '25When AI took off a few years ago, I launched a podcast (typical VC move) to talk to the people building all the coolest stuff. It was fun, and I learned a lot. But I quickly realiz4.0×61k1961078
40Jan 27, '25If you are a VC and DeepSeek has caused you to quietly panic out about your AI investments: Perhaps consider changing your diligence process moving forward?4.0×61k3871631
41Oct 24, '24Some news: my former Anchor co-founder (@nirzicherman) and I are announcing a new company. It's called Oboe (@oboelabs), and our mission is to make humanity smarter. We’ve both spe3.9×59k2601491
42Mar 21, '25So many AI products are simply reselling inference (some for less than they bought it for) when they have absolutely no control over the cost of that inference. The replies to the 3.8×59k21119169
43Oct 16, '24“Operator” is a term invented by VCs to inflate their employment experience.3.8×58k7272551
44Nov 10, '25Out Wednesday.3.8×57k510980
46Sep 28, '17So proud to announce that @anchor has raised $10M, led by GV. Want to help build the future of audio? We're hiring!3.3×0391580
47Aug 26, '25Embracing all the VC stereotypes, @semil (legendary seed investor and one of Figma's earliest backers) and I took the pod on the road to Montauk, near where each of us grew up. Sem3.3×51k1859166
48Nov 19, '18Genius product from @timraybould and team. Stoop aggregates all of your newsletter subs into one streamlined app experience. Plus, it gives you a special email address to use for a3.2×03484740
49Apr 10, '25I despise the term “vibe coding” and wish we had all agreed on something else to describe the art and science of non-technical people building software using AI.3.2×49k3591030
50Jul 27, '221/ I wrote about platforms' shift away from friend graphs and towards recommendation feeds, marking the death of Social Media as we know it. Here's why social can't compete in an a3.0×02135384
51Feb 17, '25This is completely unhinged and I love it. It’s also really smart. Tech is the greatest show on earth and it’s been that way for some time now. But no one has yet seized the opport3.0×45k203866
52Oct 19, '221/ Is the Creator Economy dead? The tools which promised to help creators achieve economic independence haven't lived up to the hype. I wrote about this, & what I believe to be3.0×017836127
53Sep 5, '24This week officially marks 2 years into my transition from founder/CEO to VC. AMA.2.9×44k178124
54Mar 28, '24Spoke with the legendary @semil, one of the world's great seed investors about how VC is shifting due to AI, and it's impact on all relevant stakeholders, from startup founders, to2.9×44k1241394
55May 15, '25Granola (@meetgranola) has raised more than $65M from investors like Lightspeed, Spark Capital, and Nat Friedman by building a category-defining AI notetaker with exceptional taste2.8×43k1645214
56Mar 25, '25We need a full, system-wide reset on all startup metrics. Definitions are getting way too fuzzy.2.8×42k3041435
57Oct 27, '25i have seen the data behind some of Silicon Valley's most beloved work products and I can assure you that 996 is a myth.2.7×41k354836
58Dec 9, '221/ What if we're already living in the metaverse? The new AI-enabled internet is an alternate reality that doesn't require AR, VR, brain implants & definitely not headsets. And2.6×02223674
59Sep 20, '221/ @Spotify just launched Audiobooks. Everyone knows they've long been the world's top music streaming platform. And they're also the world's top podcast platform (after 0% markets2.6×02643952
60Feb 10, '25OpenAI is the new Apple. And they deserve it.2.5×38k312835
61Nov 29, '18Money is pouring into podcasting through advertising, but it’s all going to the top 1% of podcasts. @Anchor Sponsorships changes that by leveling the playing field and making it po2.5×02804814
62Jul 21, '25We're living in the most hyper capitalistic moment in tech history. Everyone just wants to get rich and no one is being shy about it. But your startup can’t outspend Meta and you c2.5×38k24110219
63Nov 7, '221/ ✨Some news✨ @lightspeedvp is announcing that we're leading a $4.2M seed round in @circlelabsxyz, a platform that enables anyone to create their own virtual characters powered by2.4×02253452
64Feb 19, '25One thing I’m hearing from founders building at the app layer is that the pace of model improvements coming from the AI labs is making it disorienting to plan their roadmaps. By th2.3×35k28314107
65May 31, '25Memory is not the ultimate AI model lock in mechanism. A friend and I spoke about this at length last night. I initially thought it was but after discussing with this person for a 2.2×33k19211113
66Jan 18, '19Officially checking “@Anchor starring in an Apple commercial” off the bucket list. So proud of this team.2.1×0318192
67Nov 7, '18When we first launched @Anchor, we joked about a grassroots marketing campaign where we’d install our app on all of the Apple retail store demo devices. Now @Apple’s doing it for u2.1×0296230
68Apr 29, '25“How big is the TAM?” is a completely obsolete question. AI makes it impossible to map to old markets. It’s all new. Just dream a little.2.1×31k2061940
69Sep 7, '24Thanks to all who applied. Unfortunately the position has been filled by a 16 yo anon memelord.2.0×31k15008
70Jun 20, '25I Granola'ed @karpathy's Software 3.0 talk at YC AI Startup School. Ask It Anything:2.0×31k1468119
71Sep 7, '221/ Earlier this year, I announced that I was stepping away from my work on @Anchor & @Spotify. Today I finally get to share more about what I’ll be up to: I’m joining @lightspe2.0×02551224
72Jan 15, '25App Clips as a download hack has me thinking about other memorable interactions pioneered by social apps: App Clips (Explode) Synchronized posting (BeReal) Infinite likes (Periscop2.0×31k1726193
73Feb 26, '25And people are still wondering why every single podcast is pivoting to video.2.0×31k2321047
74Jan 27, '25Today is a great day to ignore everything happening at the model layer and simply ship a great product.2.0×30k2021033
75Jan 29, '25One mistake we founders often make is that we only cater to our most retained users in the early days of searching for PMF. Our stickiest (and often loudest) users ask for features1.9×28k21720226
76Sep 13, '16Glad I didn’t pre-order jet black after seeing all the scratches on @techcrunch’s iPhone 7.1.7×0129660
77Feb 14, '25Common mistake for founders who become VCs: your mind is wired to solve problems, build products, lead teams, etc. So when you get pitched a great company, you immediately start th1.7×26k175263
78May 3, '22Since the news is out there: After 8 years, I’m leaving @Spotify / @Anchor for a new opportunity. This was the hardest decision of my life because I’m still so excited about our mi1.7×0231716
79Jul 17, '25Where are all the consumer AI apps??? This is the question I posed to s-tier consumer investors @scottbelsky (Uber, Pinterest) and @stevejang (Coinbase, Postmates). We're almost 3 1.7×25k18014276
80Mar 14, '19Here. We. Go. Podcast Analytics are about to get a major upgrade, and it all starts with today’s @anchor update. Lots more coming soon, so stay tuned 😉1.6×0205285
82Oct 18, '24Nothing screams "hot new social app" like firing up a TestFlight and seeing a bunch of VCs in the recommended users list.1.5×24k179432
83May 11, '19"Since officially launching in 2016, Anchor has become the number-one podcast platform in the world" Never, ever imagined we'd be powering more podcasts than any other platform whe1.5×0193305
84Sep 9, '24When 95% of meetings are Zoom, you can make a pretty big impact by just getting on a plane and showing up IRL.1.5×23k187816
85Oct 31, '24My conversation with Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey), founder of Rostra. Lulu and her team (@SAlexashenko and @gaby_goldberg) are leading a new generation of AI-native founders1.4×22k140691
86Oct 24, '22TOMORROW: @TaylorLorenz & I talk live on @TwitterSpaces at 12:00p ET. Topics we'll hit: * The failed promise of the #CreatorEconomy * A bigger opportunity: Creativity Supply Ch1.4×01751419
87Mar 4, '25AI is really expensive, forcing startups to generate revenue much sooner than ever before. Right now, API calls to leading models cost a lot. If a startup has real user adoption bu1.4×21k1521479
88Nov 7, '19One of podcasters’ most fundamental challenges is getting their show discovered. Unless you get featured or land a big guest, it’s hard to break through. That’s why we’re launching1.3×0148279
89Oct 21, '211/ Today, our team is thrilled to be launching Video Podcasts on @Spotify. Now all creators can apply to access our new video podcasting features through @Anchor. Here’s why this i1.3×01432310
90Nov 19, '24Let’s be real: 90% of a VC’s job is to send emails.1.2×19k174115
92Jun 25, '25The irony is that so far, AI has recruited far more developers than it has eliminated. Everyone I know is coding right now.1.0×16k166913
93Feb 9, '19Happy 3rd Birthday to @Anchor! 🎂 We’re just getting started 😃1.0×0163110
94Dec 3, '24VC: "Events are a waste of time. Build build build." Also VC: "Please RSVP for our holiday party in Tahoe."1.0×15k201212
95Apr 29, '20We started @anchor with a mission to make it easy for anyone to have a podcast. Today in @spotify’s earnings, we shared some progress on that mission: Anchor is now powering 70% of1.0×0138106
96Apr 12, '25Here’s the secret to winning the AI “app layer”… Just build a great product that uses AI. It’s really that simple.1.0×15k159344
97Jan 22, '19The @Anchor + iPad Pro commercial is now up on 👀0.9×0128171
98Sep 9, '22Here’s my new friend @RjBarrett6 and me just casually kicking it at @PrimaryVC summit, talking about dogs and @nyknicks.0.9×015280
99Nov 21, '17On a 20 min walk near my office, I just saw: * 4 friends I haven’t seen in a year * @ScottRogowsky from @hqtrivia * the guitarist from one of my all time favorite bands I ❤️ NYC.0.8×013930
100Jun 20, '25The people I respect most speak plainly and with words everyone understands.0.8×12k17478
101Mar 7, '25So many VCs who just started vibe coding last week are trying to relate to founders by telling them they’re “technical” 😂0.8×11k15735

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