Michael Gilroy
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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philippe had taught me over my time there one the way he showed up it could be a multi-hundred million dollar position in a public company or it could be a two million dollar seed jack at three in the morning he's gonna show up and he's gonna show up the same way with the same intensity he hates losing
I have a younger sister.
She's four years younger than me.
And she would tell you that I'm the most competitive person she's ever met in her life.
I wouldn't let her win anything growing up.
And I look at somebody like Philippe, and he's fiercely competitive.
He's fiercely innovative.
And while I learned how to be a venture investor at Canaan, I learned how to be a money manager at KOTU.
There's a polish and a seriousness there.
that managing money necessitates.
And he expected the best out of everyone every step of the way.
It could be an email.
It can be slides going into our AGM.
The number of reps and focus on the little things there, process and anything going outside of the firm, was just something that I've never, ever seen before.
Did that permeate through Cotu?
It truly is top-down.
Slack posts, right?
They did a phenomenal job creating visibility inside of the firm because they believe that makes everybody better and across products.
Very early on, I remember I got a call from Philippe.
I had posted something about some like series A fintech trend or business.
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