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20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:02:20 Harry Stebbings Do you think like a first round, or a Floodgate, or a Uncork, or a boutique seed firm that stayed boutique, you know, Felicis I would actually put differently, because I think they cleverly scaled AUM into a multi-stage very efficiently,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 42:06 Tim Ferriss And he would later start floodgate and become a very, very successful venture capitalist, which he still is.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:40 Mitchell Green Mike and Ann at Floodgate have continued to stay small.
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:36 Harry Stebbings So then we close with Maples and Floodgate. 3 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:26 Hussein Kanji Now again, Floodgate had four big LPs.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:01 Mike Maples She's part of Floodgate, and she, she gets to know the founders, and she looks at every investment that we make as if it were her pipeline.
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:58 Raman Malik And so the more people you can get like that, you know, Mike Maples at Fluggit has this incredible analogy that early startup teams need to be like a jazz band.
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:10 Mike Maples And, and, uh, you know, if I was the Stanford Endowment, if I was, uh, you know, Sloan Kettering, what would I want Floodgate to do?
- ▶ 38:27 Mike Maples And so, before I started Floodgate, the way funding worked was 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:49 Mike Maples Um, what we do at Floodgate is seventy-thirty, and the reason, I learned this from Dave Swenson, like, your allocation decision, so, so Dave Swenson at Yale once told me, your allocation decision is one of the most important decisions that…
Homebrew’s Hunter Walk & Satya Patel: Why $100M is Not Enough to Execute a Seed Strategy | 20VC #972 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:15 Hunter Walk You know, people attribute this to Mike Maple's affiliate and it's a hundred percent true.
20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings and so I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat Anne Muraco, co-founding partner at Floodgate, one of the leading early stage firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Twitter, Twitch, Lyft, Okta, Outreach, and…
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings Thrilled to hand over to co-founding partner at Floodgate, Ann Muraco.
20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- ▶ 46:02 Harry Stebbings Later this week, we have The Memo on Lyft with Anne Muraco at Floodgate.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings Prior to their IPO in 2017, Todd raised over two hundred and twenty nine million dollars for the company, from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Coastal, and Floodgate, to name a
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings And our guest today is that, a dear friend and mentor, an OG of OG in the world of seed investing, and so with that I'm thrilled to welcome back to the hot seat today Mike Maples, founder and partner at Floodgate, one of the leading early…
- ▶ 2:19 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough from me, so now I'm so excited to welcome back to the hot seat today, Mike Maple's founder and partner at Floodgate.
- ▶ 2:51 Harry Stebbings But for those that missed our round one, I do want to hear, what was the story for your entrance into Venture and for that founding moment with Floodgate in a very succinct two to three minutes? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:48 Harry Stebbings The many more you could have raised much more than you have done for floodgate and much more like your competitors have done bluntly and scaled fund sizes significantly bluntly.
- ▶ 36:40 Harry Stebbings Tell me, Mike, what is the single biggest challenge of your role with Floodgate today?
20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Cool has raised over fourteen million dollars in VC funding from some very dear friends of the show in the form of Gary and Alexis had initialized, James and Peter at NFX, Mike at Floodgate, Y Combinator, GV, and Naval Ravikant, just to…
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Okta, the independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time, and to date, Frederick's raised over four hundred and fifteen million dollars with Okta from some of the very… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 3 Stages of Denial For Founders When Scaling, Why You Will Likely Be Unable To Hire Through Your Network & The Interview Question All Founders Must Ask with Olof Mathé, Founder & CEO @ Mixmax
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings As a result, Olof has raised over thirteen million dollars in funding from some very dear friends of the show, in the form of Jason at Sasta, Mike at Harrison Metal, Mike at Floodgate, and Carl at Creandum, just to name a few.
20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- ▶ 13:01 Harry Stebbings You know, I, I love you, and I think the world of you and Circle Up, but this next one made me interestingly irate, which is when I saw on Twitter, you tweeted, micro VC funds, and the element of them having small funds because they just…
20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- ▶ 8:39 Leah Busque Ann Miraco from Floodgate Fund, who led our seed round of investment, you know, I consider a great friend and a mentor.
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings To date, Lobb has raised close to thirty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the investing world, including Floodgate, Initialized, First Round, and most recently YC's Continuity Fund.
- ▶ 25:36 Harry Stebbings Question from Anne at Floodgate.
20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings To date, Mariam's also raised eighty-nine million dollars in VC funding with Minted, from some of the very best in the business, including our favorites, Floodgate, Benchmark, Menlo, Slow, and Ridge Ventures, and then prominent individuals…
20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings They've raised over seventeen million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business, including prior guests Mike Maples at Floodgate, Bing Gordon at Kleiner Perkins, and the team at Google Ventures, just to name a few.
- ▶ 20:17 Harry Stebbings And often the kind of aides and advisors in this process is the board, and you've had all-time greats on your board from Bing Gordon at KP to Mike Maples at Floodgate.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 13:24 Bing Gordon So I love Mike Maples from Floodgate.
20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
- ▶ 10:46 Harry Stebbings I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether you believe it is simply because the company hasn't hit product market fit, and it often leads kind of, as Fluggate have told me before, it's often a peer going to nowhere, or do you think it is a… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
20VC: AngelList's Parker Thompson on How He Evaluates Startup Founders & Why The Move To Series A Is Harder Than Ever?
- ▶ 16:40 Harry Stebbings I had Mike Maples on the show from Floodgate.
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 3:27 Paul Martino Well, I think it's a perfectly ironic or appropriate that you just interviewed Mike Maples, and I just listened to the interview this morning because I would not be in this business had Mike Maples not offered me a job at his fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:42 Paul Martino In spite of their brand, to be able to get money to the new and innovative ones, so that when those new and innovative funds like First Round and Floodgate are now massively oversubscribed, they actually had a toehold in them, because they…
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 4:20 Rick Marini The, the first dot com crash, uh, started my second company branch out back in 2010 and, uh, branch out raised forty nine million dollars from Excel and Mayfield and Redpoint and Newark West and Floodgate and some great angels.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Now, Mike is the founding partner at Floodgate, one of the leading early-stage venture funds in the Valley, and Mike has made investments in the likes of Twitter, Twitter, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get the ball rolling by discussing how you came to found Floodgate, and what the aha moment was for you in terms of the funding gap that really existed in 2007, 2008 time.
- ▶ 4:35 Harry Stebbings Process with the Floodgate Fund.
- ▶ 8:57 Mike Maples And so then back to your question, Harry, we have, we have a rule at floodgate where there's, there's no voting system. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:23 Harry Stebbings In terms of accountability within floodgate, as you said there, in terms of their own kind of pool of capital within the fund, do you carve out the fund as in 20 for an 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:51 Harry Stebbings And we said, we said about the team there, and I do want to go back to the team at Floodgate, because I've got a question from, from Iris, uh, one of the Floodgate team. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:31 Harry Stebbings The favorite moment of the Floodgate journey, when was the real highlight for you so far? 4 times in the scene
20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- ▶ 27:10 Harry Stebbings You can always email me, harry, at the twentyminutebc.com, and I cannot wait to bring you next Monday's episode with Mike Maples at Floodgate.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 4:41 Michael Kim Um, by 2007, eight, you had groups like Steve Anderson at Baseline, Mike Maples at Floodgate, Michael Deering at Harrison Metal.
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings So joining me today is Anne Muraco, co-founder at Floodgate, one of the Valley's leading early stage venture funds, with Twitter, Twitch, Weebly, and many more, all in their immense portfolio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so without further ado, I'm delighted to welcome Anne Muraco, co-founder at Floodgate.
- ▶ 11:36 Harry Stebbings It does bring me to a common phrase for Mike at Floodgate, and that's the, the thunder lizards phrase, um, and the characteristics that are inherent within thunder lizards. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- ▶ 20:40 Chris Douvos And the funds that I did during that period, first round and floodgate, you know, IA out of New York and several others.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 11:53 Hussein Kanji There were some great, big established venture funds, but there weren't very many newer next generation funds, which if you look in California or in the U S right, you have first round capital, you have true ventures, you have floodgate,…