Michael Mignano
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Business Career
Mignano began his career in the music industry at Atlantic Records before transitioning into tech, first at photo-sharing platform Aviary (image editor) and then Adobe Inc..[3] In 2016, after struggling to produce podcasts on his own, he started Anchor (app) to make it easier for aspiring creators to broadcast audio with co-founder, Nir Zicherman.[4] The pair received financial backing from a variety of venture capitalists, including Accel, Google's venture arm GV (company), and the co-founders' former boss from Adobe, Scott Belsky[5].
In February 2019, Anchor was acquired by Spotify[6] for more than $150M[7] and Mignano became responsible for overseeing the Swedish audio streaming company podcast tech business, as well as their expansion into video and live audio.[8]
In 2019, Mignano was featured as one of the main keynote speakers at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX.[9]
In addition to his work at Spotify, Mignano is an advisor and investor to early stage technology companies, and in 2022, announced he'd be leaving Spotify to focus exclusively on early stage tech investing.[10]
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- ↑ Steele, Anne (2019-02-06). "Spotify Is Acquiring Pair of Podcasting Companies, Signaling Broad Ambitions" (in en-US). Wall Street Journal. Template:Citation/identifier. https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-is-acquiring-podcasting-company-anchor-signaling-broad-ambitions-11549450887.
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