Michael Mignano

General Partner @USV. Building @Supertake. Co-Founder Anchor (acq. by Spotify) and @OboeLabs. Early investor in @meetgranola, @suno, @xai, others.

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

Introducing @Supertake, a new platform that transforms your unique takes on the world into real, shareable investment portfolios using frontier AI and trading agents.

Supertake makes it easy for anyone to invest in their ideas, even if they know nothing about investing.

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[Michael Mignano @mignano]

Some @supertake invite codes.

2c74-gyd5
2gss-2kws
35wd-gt5u
39hx-4bz2
66xv-b4fk
6qhf-eehc
7wsd-9hm5
9qhz-djn4
jbzt-hp54

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@0xfishylosopher long antifragile

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

We at @usv believe in an Antifragile Internet.

A more durable, globally-connected network of information, people, and agents, which unlocks enormous opportunity, while also protecting the individuals and enterprises participating.

We're investing heavily behind this thesis.

[Jay Yu 🐟 @0xfishylosopher]

https://t.co/1lu52PTOnb

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@tregoudeau 🫡

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

Granola has become the most personal and trusted AI in my life. It understands more about me than any other agent - including the big labs’.

Awesome to see the team putting that power to good use.

[Chris Pedregal @cjpedregal]

The Big Labs are hoping that once you set up your agent, it’ll be too painful to switch. That’s why they let you connect apps via MCP, but don’t offer an MCP (even though they invented it 🤔).

We’re all better off when we’re not locked-in to one agent. Check out your agent brief, they are surprisingly good!

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

New in @Supertake: Moving Markets.

Now, the top news headlines affecting your takes appear at the top of your dashboard, showing you exactly how your takes moved as a result.

And when you drill down on each headline, you can see how other takes on Supertake are moving, too.

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@Bfaviero @Supertake Dm me your email

[JEHOVA @JehovaTrades]

https://t.co/sDau6O4mPn

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@kramnotmark Says you

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@livjenkss 🫡

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

I've always loved consuming 2x2s but have never been much of a creator.

Now, after reading this post, I see the world through a new lens, and will be drawing 2x2s for everything.

[Liv Jenks @livjenkss]

https://t.co/0JcwFQnWJE

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@anirudh_twt 👨‍🍳

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

The new Oboe app was a lightbulb moment for me in how AI games, movies, etc. get huge

It’s infinite puzzles where the user designs their experience - but curated, so the opposite of a slop feed

It’s one of the only AI mobile apps stealing screen time from incumbents for me 👀

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@nikbonaddio thanks

@NirZicherman

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

Startups are hard. Respect to Nir here for explaining what didn't work about the first version of Oboe, and what he and the team are doing differently to right the ship in this new approach.

And the new product is exceptionally cool. So many people are talking about dynamic UI and the potential for AI to personalize any experience, in real time, beyond a simple chat interface.

Oboe is one of the few products I've seen that actually does this, and does it well. Everything about Oboe is dynamically generated for you, specifically.

And it's a lot of fun. If you like to waste time on your phone, but want to do it in a way that doesn't make you dumber, try this app.

[Nir Zicherman @NirZicherman]

We’ve pivoted Oboe. The first version, which we spent the past two years building, didn’t work. No excuses. Here’s the full story, culminating in what comes next: an all-new Oboe, available today.

We launched Oboe with a mission to make humanity smarter. That mission is core to who we are, and it hasn’t changed. The first way we thought to achieve it was by leveraging frontier models to offer everyone personalized tutoring.

But through many iterations over the past two years, it became clear that we built the wrong product. First, we’d made strategic decisions that left us undifferentiated in the age of LLMs. Second, by focusing on utility above all else, there was little organic incentive for people to return to the platform. And most importantly, no matter how great our product was, not many people were motivated to actively learn every day.

Despite our best efforts to serve everyone on the planet, we landed on a small, loyal user base that loved a product which wasn’t growing fast enough.

So we took a step back: How else could we serve everyone on the planet and still achieve our mission?

We decided instead to focus on a motivation everyone has: to have fun. Every day, billions of people entertain themselves on their mobile devices, filling countless minutes with mindless scrolling and brainrot that doesn’t make us smarter. In many cases, it actually makes us stupider.

What if we could replace scrolling that makes us stupider with scrolling that is both fun and makes us smarter? That’s the new Oboe.

It’s a fully personalized feed of dynamically generated, interactive, anti-brainrot challenges. Every scroll is designed specifically for you, to help you get smarter in a few minutes every single day.

We’ve been blown away by usage from our thousands of beta users. The differences in engagement and retention between this and the original version are stark. The product is working. It’s already clear that this new direction taps into a universal need that none of our previous iterations did.

For all of those people out there like me who feel like doomscrolling wastes their precious time, who enjoy feeling fulfilled, and who wish there was a better alternative: this one’s for you.

We can’t wait to see what you think.

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@theaihacker yes

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

Despite what you read in posts on on this website, owning the actual user interface that sits between a product and a user remains critically important and a moat not easily disrupted.

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@shzhv13 yes

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@tanmaye_bhatia yup

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@anirudh_twt true

[Michael Mignano @mignano]

@levixhere indeed