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Books I've Loved \u2014 Ann Miura-Ko | Brought to you by Audible.

Note: This episode was recorded in November 2019.

Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types\u2014from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I\u2019m doing called \u201cBooks I\u2019ve Loved.\u201d I\u2019ve invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books\u2014the books that have influenced them, changed them, and transformed them for the better. I hope you pick up one or two new mentors\u2014in the form of books\u2014from this new series and apply the lessons in your own life.

Ann Miura-Ko (@annimaniac) has been called \u201cthe most powerful woman in startups\u201d 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 Ann\u2019s 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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