Startup Project: Build the future
#20 Mike Fridgen: Seattle based Startup Incubator Madrona Venture Labs
May 15, 2022
32:48
In this Episode of Startup Project, Nataraj talked to Mike Fridgen, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs a Seattle based tech startup incubator. Some of the companies incubated include Style Genome (Acq by Wayfair), Chatitive (Acq by MailChimp), Message Yes (Acq by Nordstrom) & more. Before joining Madrona Venture Labs Mike was part of founding teams at Farecast (Acq by Microsoft) & Decide (Acq by Ebay) where he led product and growth strategies.
Full Conversation includes:
- Farecast.com (Predicting prices) - Acquired by Microsoft
- Decide.com (next gen consumer reports) - Acquired by Ebay
- Through line across being part of multiple acquisitions
- Incubating companies at Madrona Venture Labs
- Relationship with Madrona Venture Group
- Thematic focus behind companies incubated at Madrona Venture Labs
Nataraj is a PM at Azure, partner at NVC & hosts thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/natarajsindam. You can also subscribe to his newsletter at getrevue.co/profile/StartupProject
