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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings He's a former founder, having sold his business anchored to Spotify many years ago.
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings We first did our show when you were co-founder of Anchor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02 Mike Mignano You know, you talked about Anchor.
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings Years ago with Anchor, you wanted a very natural conversational style record and let people listen in.
- ▶ 5:41 Mike Mignano I've always been in or around New York, and as a builder, when I was building Anchor in New York 10 years ago, I got to meet USV, and I had an incredible, despite them passing, had an incredible experience.
- ▶ 49:34 Mike Mignano Um, I, I told a story on that, that podcast, uh, where when Anchor first launched, I had never met Fred, and, um, the Anchor app accidentally auto-tweeted for Fred, and he has a big follower count on Twitter at the time, uh, now it's X,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:01 Mike Mignano That's, um, you know, I, I, so when I was building Anchor, the, the Socratic office, Socratic was his previous startup, was right behind ours. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:27 Mike Mignano You know, previously, like, let's say on Anchor, you would make a podcast for the purpose of getting distribution and eventually monetizing it, right?
- ▶ 1:00:48 Mike Mignano When we built anchor, you know, we had this vision of democratizing audio and giving everyone a voice.
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:01 Harry Stebbings The other one that I actually spoke to Mike Mignogno about, which is obviously the founder of Anchor, um, years ago, he said the thing I learned is live does not work, Harry.
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings But tell me, you know, you've had an amazing career so far with Anchor and with Spotify. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 Mike Mignano Yeah, so thinking back to my experience being on the other side, right, as a founder of Anchor, um, one of the things that I think we did really well at Anchor was we built this culture of very direct communication built on mutual respect,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:47 Mike Mignano Um, you know, obviously a, a reason we heard often with anchor was this is not an interesting market.
- ▶ 15:41 Harry Stebbings I'm not sure if you know this, but when I was like, 1819, I was in SF, and this was when Anchor was so hot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 Mike Mignano We want it to be, we wanted audio to have anchor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, we've seen quite a few consumer social companies gain very, very, uh, mass adoption, huge popularity and hype, whether it's your anchor, you know, obviously a while ago, and then there was like, I think pop shop or pop show. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:37 Mike Mignano Secondly, I can also tell you from the anchor days, replays of audio is, is also a tricky place for them to be. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:34 Mike Mignano I mean, not that, you know, anchor ended up being a social platform, but, um, in the early days of anchor, we just gave people a microphone and we sort of cut them off at two minutes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:26 Mike Mignano They bought anchor, which, you know, obviously I'm biased. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:18 Mike Mignano I learned from my days fundraising for anchor about the power law dynamics of venture investing.
- ▶ 51:46 Mike Mignano You know, I, I naturally, you know, founding anchor, I'm a, I'm a big believer in, in platforms that lower the friction to enable people to create and distribute and monetize and things like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Mike Mignano We, um, with anchor, you know, you, you, you acknowledge that we sort of pivoted. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:03 Mike Mignano She was the first employee at Anchor.
20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
- ▶ 1:11 Harry Stebbings I'd also have to say a huge thank you to Mike Minardo at Anchor for the intro to Scott today.
20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings I also want to say a huge thank you to Mike Mignano at Anchor for the intro to Scott today.
- ▶ 2:19 Harry Stebbings Uh, huge thanks to Mike at Anchor for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Scott.
- ▶ 27:45 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say again a huge thanks to Mike Mignano at Anchor for the introduction to Scott today, without which the show would not have been possible.
20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- ▶ 18:38 Harry Stebbings So what's your take on Sooster's Snapstorms, every VC doing a podcast, people being on Anchor, how do you approach this branding of VC?