Los Angeles · Writer
Anish K. Mitra
I write about markets and the people inside them — usually with a straight face. By day I run marketing and brand at a venture firm in the Midwest. I live in Los Angeles.

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Elegant Mixture
We probably haven’t spoken in a minute. Moving forward, I’m going to share some essays I began writing after my father died in July 2025. The result is a deeply serious body of…
August 21, 2026/IPO & CHILL/1 min read
Seven Twenty Dollar Bills
Foot Locker, Finish Line and Champ’s were perched in a row. The original Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
July 16, 2026/The Beneficiary/LinkedIn
Required Minimum Distractions
New York, June 1988: My father has just delivered some excellent news: “You don’t have a trust fund.”
July 9, 2026/The Beneficiary/LinkedIn
Mean Reversion
A year ago, I sat on a blue rubber recliner chair at the Long Island Jewish Rehabilitation Center and stared at my dad.
The Beneficiary/1 min read
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