Mike Mignano

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1,346 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Mike Mignano’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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We've got this infrastructure, and now it's time for the applications to be built.

I think we have never handed over so much of ourselves to a technology before than we're about to do with agents.

As a startup, you need every advantage you can get right now.

If I were the CEO of a startup right now, I would actually still be pounding the table to maximize token spend.

We like to bet on businesses that obliterate, that literally obliterate markets and existing business models.

I think this era of building AI products is in many ways about being first and about moving really, really fast.

I think traditional media in many respects is dead.

I think both to some extent.

I think the fear of failure is very, very, very important.

I actually strongly believe that great, great things, great companies, great products, great people come from constraints.

And I think that failure is the ultimate form of a constraint.

You talked about anchor.

Somebody just asked me the other day, they said, at what point in your life did you do your best work?

And I thought about it.

And the honest answer to that question was, I believe I did my best work when we were

three months out of cash.

When we were about to run out of money and when we were about to fail is when we did our best work.

It's so clarifying to know that you're going to fail unless you turn the thing around.

And so I think failure can be an incredible motivator.

But I also think that you have to have an insanely ambitious mission.

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