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August 17, 2013 01:30 am GMT

Ask A VC: Floodgate's Ann Miura-Ko On Rajeev Motwani's Legacy And More

annIn this week's episode of Ask A VC Floodgate's co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko joined us in the studio.Miura-Ko and I chatted about her role at Stanford, where she is a lecturer in the school of engineering, and where she received a PhD focused on mathematical modeling of computer security. Miuro-Ko recalled how impactful and important the late Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford professor of computer science, was to Ph.D. students in her program who wanted to found companies based on their research. As Miura-Ko explains in the video above, Motwani served as a mentor and advisor for Larry Page and Sergey Brin during the formative years of Google.

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