[1][2][3] Livingston was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and later relocated to the Boston area, raised in large part by her father and grandmother.

[6] After college, Livingston pursued an array of jobs, including work at Fidelity, the Food & Wine magazine, an automotive consulting firm, and a wedding planning service.

[7] Livingston met Paul Graham, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell (the co-founders of dot-com company Viaweb) at a party in Cambridge.

[11] Livingston is one of the financial backers of OpenAI, a for-profit company aiming to develop artificial general intelligence.

[13] In 2023, she started co-hosting The Social Radars podcast alongside fellow YC partner Carolynn Levy.