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You can be a founder. You can be an investor. You can be an operator. Or, you can be Shalin Mantri and be all three. This respected product leader got his start by founding a mobile app startup in the early iPhone days in 2011 and followed it up with product leadership in the early days of Uber, Skip and more recently, Google. He angel invests with $5k – $50k checks as a true first believer, usually in companies where he has a personal connection with the founder.
He shares his tiered angel investment system, where he sees autonomous vehicles going (and not going), his thoughts on AI, how AI might have transformed Uber’s early days, and what he thinks of the rise of multi-billion-dollar, 1-pizza companies.
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