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Ann Miura-Ko

Co-founding partner at Floodgate, Floodgate

Search every verified Ann Miura-Ko interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner of Floodgate, has recently discussed her investment philosophy and views on artificial intelligence in several podcast appearances. She reflected on Floodgate's 18-year history of maintaining a deliberately small fund model and making early investments in companies such as Lyft and TaskRabbit. Miura-Ko described her approach to evaluating founders, noting that she looks for qualities like tenacity and what she called "inevitability," and said her instincts are now more focused on assessing people rather than early-stage business evidence. In discussions about AI, Miura-Ko introduced the concept of "AI-pilled organizations" and outlined levels of AI adoption within companies. She argued that AI empowers "order makers" while threatening "order takers" whose digital tasks involve following checklists. Miura-Ko also described building a personal knowledge management system using AI agents, inspired by Andrej Karpathy's work, to process meeting notes, articles, and transcripts. She stated that while AI can be trained to have taste and judgment, she does not believe it can be trained to have soul. Miura-Ko also emphasized the importance of truth-seeking environments where disagreement is welcomed, and discussed her personal goal of continuing to learn and become a more complete human.

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Notable quotes

“I think the role that gut plays now is much more on people. And I think over time I've really honed my instincts around how people operate, who they are, and what types of ways in which they think and engage in the world and what makes them exceptional. And so because that pre-seed and seed, there's not a ton of evidence as to what that person is working on. And so the hope is that you're investing in people who will”

“AI massively empowers the order makers of the world but threatens the order takers. For humans whose jobs right now is to take a list and go down and check mark the items that have needed to get done and just gets it done, especially in a digital world, that job is threatened.”

“Every great startup has one fundamental assumption that has less than a 50% chance of being correct, but if true will give you a 20x–100x advantage in the market.”

“If you took all of the IPOs that happened between 1980 and 2012 — there's about 3,000 of them — the number that was most striking to me was how many of these have more than $4 billion in revenues. Well, turns out it's only 17 companies.”

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