Anthony Ao

3x founder, also into the science of immunology. I have started three companies, and I offer mentorship and coaching to super early-stage founders to help them get their visions up and running and turn their ideas into reality.

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Sep 18, 2024

🧬 ISSUE No. 8 – Sep 18, 2024

💰 Finance, 6'5'', blue eyes - How does the finance sector ($667 trillion) worth more than the total value of all the economic activity in the world ($105 trillion) | 📝 Keep Rewriting Your Mission Statement

Anthony Ao

Personal Hot Take 🌶️Personal Hot Take 🌶️

Sep 15, 2024

📝 Keep Rewriting Your Mission Statement

Three years ago, I wrote this when I was living in Copenhagen.

Anthony Ao

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Sep 11, 2024

🧬 ISSUE No. 7 – Sep 11, 2024

🇭🇰 Duality Biotherapeutics Eyes Hong Kong IPO to Power ADC Pipeline Forward | 🙂‍↔️ How to overcome self-doubt

Anthony Ao

Personal Hot Take 🌶️Personal Hot Take 🌶️

Sep 09, 2024

🙂‍↔️ How to overcome self-doubt

“Will I make it?”, “Will everything in my presentation be alright tomorrow?”, “Will the new studio look exactly like I want?”, “Will the meeting be successful?”

Anthony Ao

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Sep 04, 2024

🧬 ISSUE No. 6 – Sep 4, 2024

💭 In business, politics, and war, the best organized and most motivated minority wins. | 🙅‍♀️ Why I never recommend entrepreneurship to anyone

Anthony Ao

Personal Hot Take 🌶️Personal Hot Take 🌶️

Sep 02, 2024

🙅‍♀️ Why I never recommend entrepreneurship to anyone

Talk to entrepreneurs you meet on a Start-Up Day or conference; it is not hard to find them overhyping on small things, smiling way too much, being overly optimistic, as if they are overdosed. Are their minds fxxxxx up?

Anthony Ao

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Aug 28, 2024

ISSUE No. 5 – Aug 28, 2024

💰 Over 90 US Biotech VCs have AUM >1B | 🤔 Sometimes being ambitious is not good (?)

Anthony Ao

Personal Hot Take 🌶️Personal Hot Take 🌶️

Aug 26, 2024

🤔 Sometimes being ambitious is not good (?)

Is it a good thing to be ambitious?

Anthony Ao

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Aug 21, 2024

ISSUE No. 4 – Aug 21, 2024

💰Iovance Biotherapeutics Secures $200M in 2024 and First FDA-Approved TIL Therapy Product | ✨ 5 Years, 15 Lessons: What I Learned Scaling and Downsizing a Startup 🚀📉

Anthony Ao

Personal Hot Take 🌶️Personal Hot Take 🌶️

Aug 19, 2024

✨ 5 Years, 15 Lessons: What I Learned Scaling and Downsizing a Startup 🚀📉

My company is 5 years old. We grew from 0 to a team of 11, then downsized to 5. Here are 15 lessons I’ve learned along the way.

Anthony Ao