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464: Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future with co-founder of FLOODGATE, Mike Maples, Jr

Jul 10, 2024

Mike Maples Jr, co-founder of FLOODGATE, discusses pattern-breaking success in startups, challenging limiting beliefs, and identifying breakthrough opportunities. He explores the origin of great startup ideas, empowering inflections in startups, and the importance of living in the future for innovation.

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Quick takeaways

Pattern-breaking success requires a different mindset to recognize missed opportunities.

Founders must live in the future to disrupt patterns and create transformative impacts.

Deep dives

Mike Maples Jr.'s Career Overview

Mike Maples Jr. reflects on his career, starting as a child in the PC revolution, studying engineering and computer science at Stanford, working at Silicon Graphics, co-founding companies like Motive, and transitioning to seed investing in the mid-2000s. He discusses his early investments, including Twitter, and the circuitous path to its success.

Intro

2min

Career Journey and Early Investments in Startups

2min

Entrepreneurial Mindset and Breaking Limiting Beliefs

20min

Breaking Patterns and Pursuing Breakthroughs

10min

Empowering Inflections in Startups

12min

Origin of Great Startup Ideas and the Importance of Living in the Future

3min

Exploring Learning Resources and a Book with the Guest

3min

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 464, featuring an interview with the author of Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future, Mike Maples, Jr. In this book, Maples and coauthor Peter Ziebelman set out to discover the hidden forces that drive extraordinary start-up success. Pattern-breaking success, they reveal, demands a different mindset and actions to harness developments others miss or that may, at first, seem crazy.

Mike Maples, Jr is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and the co-founder of FLOODGATE, a leading seed stage fund in Silicon Valley that invested in companies like Twitter, Twitch, Okta, and Outreach at the very beginning of their startup journeys.

An eight-time member of the Forbes Midas List of Top Venture Capital investors, he was one of the pioneers of the seed investing movement, which started in the mid-2000s and now is a mainstream part of startup funding.

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