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Ann Miura-Ko shared thisIn a world where we are increasing our energy usage in a non-linear fashion, we need an answer to how we think about carbon removal at scale. Terradot and Google are announcing the largest ERW project ever built. I'm so proud of this team - their hard work, dedication, and absolute grit to doing something that really matters.Ann Miura-Ko shared thisBIG News! Today Terradot and Google are announcing the world’s first megaton scale enhanced rock weathering project, the largest ERW project ever built. The project combines methane elimination with permanent carbon removal in Brazilian rice systems. Google will purchase 1 million tonnes of near-term methane impact by 2030 and 1 million tonnes of permanent carbon removal by 2040. It is: 💸 Google's largest carbon removal purchase to date 🪨 The largest enhanced rock weathering project ever undertaken, across more than 200,000 hectares of farmland 📜 The first agreement of any kind to pair near-term methane elimination with durable carbon removal at this scale How it works: Rice farmers in Southern Brazil are adopting Alternate Wetting and Drying, an irrigation practice that periodically drains flooded paddies, cutting water use and sharply reducing methane and clearing it from the atmosphere in about a decade. In the same project we spread naturally sourced, crushed rock, which dissolves and permanently absorbs CO2 as it weathers. By the time the short-lived methane benefit expires, the long-lived carbon removal has phased in, delivering immediate & continuous climate impact. Thank you to the Google team for making this possible and to Simon Jessop at Reuters for sitting down with our CEO and Co-Founder James Kanoff to tell this story. 🔗 Link to press release here: https://lnkd.in/eV4svW9S 🔗 Link to article here: https://lnkd.in/efdf3dkuTerradot and Google Combine Superpollutants and Carbon Removal in the World's Largest Enhanced Rock Weathering Project in Southern BrazilTerradot and Google Combine Superpollutants and Carbon Removal in the World's Largest Enhanced Rock Weathering Project in Southern Brazil
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Ann Miura-Ko reposted thisAnn Miura-Ko reposted thisIntroducing Aristotle: The first AI tutor that FIXES America’s broken education system: America is banning AI in schools. China is using AI to create child geniuses. America's Education system is flawed. - Schools are massively understaffed. - Grades are being inflated. - 40% of 4th graders read below basic level. China, South Korea, Singapore (and more) are all implementing AI aggressively into education. Meanwhile our government is banning AI. NYC Mayor Mamdani declared a one year ban on AI for grades K-8. Why ban the greatest democratizing technology EVER? I was born and raised in one of most underfunded schools: Ed W. Clark High School. I graduated top of my class and went to Stanford. Kids at Stanford grew up with billionaire parents paying for private tutors since middle school. Today, those Stanford classmates are wealthy, working top jobs, and starting successful families. But some of the kids I sat next to at Clark were left behind by the system. AI has the power to be the great equalizer, but if we don't adopt it in the US it will blow that gap wide open. The frontier labs don't want to do this: they are all sprinting after enterprise software, finance, and defense contracts because there's more money there. The Department of Education is run by Linda McMahon, who doesn't know what AI means... she literally called AI "A1" on stage. If anyone is going to build the tools that actually teach kids, it is going to have to be us. That's why we're building Aristotle. Aristotle teaches kids just like a $200/hr human tutor would. It speaks, listens, learns, and can even see what your kid is doing. I'm so confident that your kids will love it that I'm making it free for a week. heyaristotle.com [Use code learnoutloud] I'll let the product speak for itself...
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Ann Miura-Ko shared thisAI adoption is cheap. Organizational capability is not. The frontier isn’t “more agents.” It’s a software factory where anyone can build, the best ideas propagate, experience compounds, and the machine starts noticing what nobody thought to ask.
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Ann Miura-Ko shared thisOne of the most fun conversations I've had in a while. Connor and I covered a lot of ground from the impact of AI, what I was like when I was 2, and why it's important to develop a habit of philanthropy when you first start out in your career and not after you've made it...Ann Miura-Ko shared this"If you work a normal job at a normal organization, are the AI-pilled companies going to eat your lunch?" This is what I asked Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner of Floodgate and one of the sharpest early-stage investors in tech (first checks into Taskrabbit, Lyft), who Forbes called "the most powerful woman in startups"(!). We didn't focus on the founders chasing the frontier. We focused on the rest of us--trying to navigate the transition while putting our employees, clients, and missions first. Ann's take is that if your job is running down someone else's list and checking someone else's boxes, be nervous. But everyone has a thing they insist gets done a certain way--a place where their judgment and taste are non-negotiable. That thing is the work now. I walked out less worried about being replaced--and a lot clearer on the difference between what Ann calls "AI theater" and the real thing. She also showed me the "Ann brain"--the setup she built so AI works for her without ever handing over the keys. If you're quietly nervous about where you fit in all this, and a little too proud to admit it: samesies. This episode is for us 🙂 Episode link in the comments
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Ann Miura-Ko reposted thisAnn Miura-Ko reposted thisIt's been nearly 8 months since I joined Roo, and time really does fly when you're having fun! Roo's obsession with data, metrics, and AI is real, and being part of a mission to empower veterinary professionals makes it all the more energizing. Since joining, I've had the chance to contribute to our data culture, ship internal data products, and explore the intersection of Data & AI in ways that drive real decisions and impact. Many companies are still figuring out how to make that intersection work. We're in the middle of doing it, and it's been incredibly rewarding. We're looking for Senior Growth Analysts to join our amazing team and help keep pushing our insights engine forward. If you're obsessed with data, inspired to drive action, and excited about what's possible at the frontier of Data & AI... we're #hiring - let's talk!
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Ann Miura-Ko reposted thisAnn Miura-Ko reposted thisI recently discovered the "Ai-native" framework by Ann Miura-Ko, and it resonated with me. She outlined the Ai-native transformation journey step by step, effectively framing our work over the past six months. This includes initiatives like Creators, Zero2claude, "Shmool's rules," the self-healing system, and various AI tools we have developed. What was previously clear to me is now even more crystal clear. I created a presentation based on this framework and shared it with the team, who found it easy to understand. The verdict shows we are between L3 to L4. I feel proud of the team; there is still a way to go, but all the hard work has paid off 💪 Thank you Ann Miura-Ko 🙏 Link to Ann's article in the first comment 👉
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Ann Miura-Ko reposted thisAnn Miura-Ko reposted thisBeing upfront about a messy Hubspot instance is not usually the best way to recruit a new Sales/Marketing/Revenue Ops leader.... But I've been watching what Claude Code can do when hooked up directly to the Hubspot APIs and I'm now convinced that there's someone out there that's going to really love manifesting their vision, leveraging all the other AI breakthroughs we've been making. DM me to find out more.
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Ann Miura-Ko reposted thisAnn Miura-Ko reposted thisI’m hiring a future founder to lead our most ambitious product yet It’s a unique opportunity to build agents at scale while learning sales from some of the best GTM teams in the world running on Nooks You’ll: • Build production agents that directly drive customer revenue • Deeply embed with sales teams at customers like Cursor, Notion, and Vanta to learn their workflows and automate them • Work on the frontier of human-agent collaboration for sales — a domain that's both art & science, still far beyond today’s model capabilities • Lead a team of ambitious engineers obsessed with transforming how customers work. And as strong in product thinking as they are in engineering I’m looking for someone extremely hands-on with strong taste, high agency, and founder-level instincts for leading both people and agents If that’s you or someone you know, let’s talk
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Monica K. When I've seen "Notice" work it does feel magical! I also think that if you have confidence in the agents to notice everything that is important, you can actually put all of your energy on forward looking strategy, new products, etc. and that's where things get really exciting
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Ann Miura-Ko liked thisAnn Miura-Ko liked thisNeptune's first founding engineer, Charles Kuang, started with us this past month! Before Neptune, Charles spent years at Propel building consumer fintech for millions of Americans. He knows how to build consumer experiences where money isn't just numbers on a screen, but something deeply emotional and personal. This kind of builder is rare. So much of fintech is designed around quick transactions and engagement loops. Charles has built for high-trust moments where people are making real decisions about their lives. Which is exactly what we do at Neptune. When a couple gets married, they are opting in to some of the most significant financial and personal commitments they will ever make. How do we combine our money? What are we actually comfortable spending and investing? Do we want to keep renting or can we buy a home? What about kids? Can we afford private school or should we do public school? Charles is also recently married. Which means he comes home to the same open questions our users bring us every day. Charles has already hit the ground running and it's a nice bonus that he gets the problem because he lives it! Welcome to the team, Charles!
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Ann Miura-Ko liked thisAnn Miura-Ko liked thisI'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position as Professor at Columbia University!
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Ann Miura-Ko liked thisAnn Miura-Ko liked thisLast Thursday, ŌURA filed their S-1 to take the company public. The IPO could raise as much as $3 billion and value the company above $16 billion. My friend Eurie Kim led the Series B for Forerunner and was Chairwoman of the OURA Board for six years. Forerunner sold 1.6 million of its Series B shares for $65 million and still holds more than 5% of the company (worth potentially over $800 million). A massive return for the firm (Fund IV). This realized outcome should easily guarantee her a spot on the 2027 Forbes Midas List. OURA is generating $1.2 billion (74% increase YoY) in revenue with incredible 89% subscription margins with five million paid members (2x YoY). I love my Oura 5 and loved my Oura 4 before it. Eurie also led the seed round for The Farmer's Dog and invested in the Series A. As of last fall, Farmer's Dog was generating over $1.2 billion in revenue and profitable, valued at over $4 billion on secondary markets. She recently led the Series B for Monarch, a popular AI consumer fintech app with over 1 million users, as well as Stan, a creator monetization platform led by founder John Hu, which is generating $40 million ARR as of this year. Eurie's other early investments include well-known consumer brands such as Away and Curology among others. Certain investors don't get the spotlight or flowers they deserve, and I'm going to make sure that she does. Congrats on this HUGE win Eurie Kim!!! 👏
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Ann Miura-Ko liked thisAnn Miura-Ko liked thisRemember getting the remote control car you wanted as a kid? You tear open the box, grab the remote, flip the switch — nothing. Then you see the fine print: batteries not included. Software puts its customers through the same experience every day. You buy the platform, and then the data cleanup, configuration, and the training end up as your job. The batteries aren't in the box. At Magic, we have the opposite philosophy: Batteries Included. We judge ourselves on getting our customer to their outcome. We wrote a bit about how we think about this. Link in comments 🔋
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Ann Miura-Ko liked thisAnn Miura-Ko liked thisZoom Appoints Former Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein to Board of Directors; Jonathan Chadwick to Retire - Zoom Communications, Inc.Zoom Appoints Former Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein to Board of Directors; Jonathan Chadwick to Retire - Zoom Communications, Inc.
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