10 Minute Blitz with Ann Miura-Ko: Pattern Recognition in Early Stage Investing
In 2010, when Lyft's founders pitched up and down Sand Hill Road, they couldn't find any takers.
Ann Miura-Ko invested when the company was worth $5 million. Years later, it IPO'd at a valuation between $20-25 billion.
So what did Ann see that dozens of other VCs missed?
Now a repeat member of the Forbes 'Midas List' and New York Times 'Top 20 VCs Worldwide' (with a portfolio including Twitter, Twitch, and Okta), Ann has built her career on spotting the patterns that others overlook while having the courage to back them.
And, as the Founding Partner at Floodgate, Ann teaches entrepreneurs how to identify disruptive insights and build companies with network effects.
In this 10 Minute Blitz, Ann will reveal the pattern recognition framework that's driven her biggest wins:
The contrarian lens: How to identify opportunities where the market is systematically wrong (and why the best investments often look like "idiotic moves" at first)
Second-order thinking: Spotting not just what's changing, but the ripple effects that create entirely new categories
The insight test: Her framework for evaluating whether founders have developed a unique "set of secrets" versus just a good idea
Whether you're an aspiring investor or a founder trying to understand how the best VCs think, this session will provide a completely new lens on evaluating early-stage opportunities.
A recording will be shared after the event with RSVPs.