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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Floodgate comes up
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.