[âIs That a World-Class Effort?â: The Story of Investor Ann Miura-Ko]()
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âThe main difference was that I was willing to outwork and outdo every competitor who walked in through that door.â â Ann Miura-Ko
Ann Miura-Ko ([@annimaniac]() has been called âthe most powerful woman in startupsâ by Forbes and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford. The child of a rocket scientist at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in technology startups from when she was a teenager. Prior to co-founding [Floodgate](, she worked at [Charles River Ventures]() and [McKinsey and Company](=). Some of Annâs investments include Lyft, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Refinery29, JoyRun, TaskRabbit, and Modcloth.
Given the success of her investments she was on the [2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists](). Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five-person team at Yale that competed in the [Robocup Competition]() in Paris, France. She has a BSEE from Yale and a PhD from Stanford in math modeling of computer security. She lives with her husband, three kids, and one spoiled dog. Her interests are piano, robots, and gastronomy.
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