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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

that you're trying to accomplish, right?

You want to win.

You have this hunger to achieve something really hard.

So I actually think you need to hold both things in your head to be successful.

And I try to do that.

I think that there's so much content and the tools have gotten so much better that out of the box, you can have a really, really decently sounding or looking video.

podcast with almost no effort.

And so if you want to break out, you actually have to go above that.

The baseline has to be excellence.

The baseline has to be incredible editing.

The baseline has to be a phrase that you used back, I remember, 10 years ago, insights per minute.

And so now I'm actually a huge fan of insanely high production value when it comes to podcasts, when it comes to YouTube videos.

We were talking a little bit before, you asked me about some of the content I've been producing and

We've tried to do something very, very different where we actually break out of a studio and we bring in multiple cameras and multiple mics and we try to do something very, very, very high production value because I think that's the only way to stand out.

So anyway, I think you were right.

But it took me 10 years to agree with you.

Listen, I was totally fishing for that.

Yeah, you got to be on the extremes.

i decided to go to usv because i am from new york 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 started a very very long friendship i ultimately became an lp in the funds and i just really always appreciated their ability and their willingness

to be really opinionated and to be very, very thesis driven, even at times in which the market said it made sense to be very consensus driven.

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