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NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:55 Harry Stebbings My, my maples.
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
- ▶ 1:12:17 Harry Stebbings Mike Maples always says, I look for an insight development in founders.
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
- ▶ 41:00 Tim Ferriss His son-in-law, Mike Maples Jr., was one of the guest speakers. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:43 Tim Ferriss And Mike was like, you sure you want to do that?
- ▶ 1:00:10 Tim Ferriss Mike Maples would have been one of those.
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:54 Miles Dieffenbach I, I love the way Mike Maples discusses picking in his
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.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:54 Jake Saper Mike Maples, our mutual friend. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:43 Harry Stebbings I remember Mike Maples, our mutual friend said on the show, 99% of the time bridge rounds are a bridge to nowhere.
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.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:59 Hussein Kanji So I got this advice from Mike Maples, who, who said, do not do a fundraise for a size of the fund. 2 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings Mike, I cannot believe that we finally get to do this in person.
- ▶ 57:11 Harry Stebbings I remember when we met in the battery years ago, I was desperate for you to give me a job, Mike.
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.
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:10 Harry Stebbings Um, Mike Maples always taught me to ask like, what is your insight development?
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:34 Harry Stebbings Mike Maples at Floodgate, an investor in the US, always asks, what do you see that no one else agrees with?
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:01 Harry Stebbings Do you think prices are coming down, Jason and Mike?
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:27 Harry Stebbings Mike Maple says, like, what secret do you believe that the world doesn't see yet?
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Mike, I am so excited for this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24 Harry Stebbings Mike, can you walk me through, what is the scenario planning lessons that founders can and should take away?
- ▶ 7:09 Harry Stebbings Mike, how many of your founders did scenario planning?
- ▶ 17:37 Harry Stebbings One thing that I am just worried about, Mike, is the centralization of, kind of, wealth migration, money movement towards the big four in a way that we haven't seen for many, many years.
- ▶ 18:35 Harry Stebbings What is a shaper versus a reactor, Mike? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:09 Harry Stebbings I mean this in a nice way, Mike.
- ▶ 33:52 Harry Stebbings Uh, Mike, I do want to do a quick firearm with you.
- ▶ 55:39 Harry Stebbings Mike, I've loved doing this.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:19 Kevin Systrom Mike Maples has the best term for this.
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
- ▶ 4:18 Ann Miura-Ko Mike and I, at the time, we were subleasing space from another venture capital firm, and just to paint the picture, I'm just getting started in my venture capital career, and I think I hadn't even finished my PhD at the time, and I was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:14 Harry Stebbings It goes back to what you and Mike have said before about insight developments.
- ▶ 13:11 Ann Miura-Ko If a founder wants to find just a check, I say to my team, and Mike says this as well, like, we have to force a choice.
- ▶ 38:04 Ann Miura-Ko We were having dinner at my house, and I had invited John and Logan and their wives over to our house for dinner, and Mike came up to our house, and he was coming in a Lyft, and he told the Lyft driver, you won't believe who's eating… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings As I said, I've been a fan for a long time and also heard the most wonderful things from Mike Maples.
- ▶ 5:51 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, though, because you said there about the incredible history as an operator and seeing the multiple different market cycles, and we're in this very precarious position today, and you said before, and in Mike Maples'…
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor
- ▶ 9:45 Julia DeWahl I really like the term that Mike Maples uses value hacking. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Harry Stebbings I mean, two for me are like Mike Maples and Brad Feld, always been unwavering in terms of that support and kind of knowledge guidance for me. 2 times in the scene
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… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 2:34 Harry Stebbings Mike, my friend, it is so good to have you back on the show today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Harry Stebbings I do want to dive straight in there today, Mike, because we've chatted before on a lot of different topics, to be fair, but we've chatted specifically about insight development before, and you said to me, a startup's not a company, it's a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of living in the future, Mike, one thing I'm honestly struggling on right now, and you know I use this show as a personal advice mechanism for me, is the uncertainty of the future that we face moving forward.
- ▶ 22:32 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask a couple of questions, Mike, which as you know with me, I always have a ton of questions for you.
- ▶ 26:17 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, Mike, maybe it's, you know, my lack of experience in the industry, but man, I feel FOMO, and I feel really antagonized when I miss a deal.
- ▶ 27:31 Harry Stebbings Yeah, no wonder I'm a complete insomniac, and you're perfectly healthy and very young and healthy, Mike. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:28 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask another one, Mike.
- ▶ 39:10 Harry Stebbings Some pretty stellar names there, Mike. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:29 Harry Stebbings As you can tell, I just absolutely love that discussion with Mike. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to Mike Maples, Iden Seng,
- ▶ 2:27 Harry Stebbings Emmett, my word, I've heard so many great things from PG at YC, from Mike Maples, the team at Felicis, so it really is such a pleasure to have you on the show, and thank you so much for joining me today.
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
20VC: Haystack's Semil Shah on Whether Founders Are Bypassing Seed Funds in Favour Of Less Dilutive Multi-Stage Funds, How Fund Strategy Changes With Fund Scaling & Why The Hardest Challenge is Price Discipline
- ▶ 5:21 Semil Shah And then as Mike Maples has said, uh, perhaps even on your show, I got hit by the lucky truck.
- ▶ 11:18 Semil Shah And this is what Keith was trying to say in that post, which is that that universe of seed investors that can go toe-to-toe, like a Mike Maples, is very small. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:08 Semil Shah I learned this a lot from one LP at Cross Creek, who shared some data, and then Mike Maples, where they were basically saying the same thing, but using different arguments.
- ▶ 22:53 Semil Shah So really what changes Harry, and a lot of this learning came from Duvos, I have to give him credit, is that I've been staying in the same rounds, I've been increasing the check size, I've been increasing the reserve, and now I'm going to… 2 times in the scene
20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership
- ▶ 17:23 Puneet Agarwal We were, we started with a hundred sixty-five million dollar fund, and I think Mike Maples was around, first round was around, you know, some of the other funds were getting started.
20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- ▶ 19:11 Harry Stebbings We had Mike Maples on the show, and he said to me that bridge rounds are most often actually a bridge to nowhere. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 4:19 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things, both from Mike Maples and Don Meshaw.
- ▶ 12:48 Harry Stebbings And I wanted to discuss the scaling process, which I've actually labeled as the chapter in this round being the Mike Maples suggestion round, because he gave so many good suggestions. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:51 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Andreessen there, though, and we mentioned Mike at Floodgate earlier. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Techstars Founder David Cohen on Why Seed Investing Is A Different Asset Class To Venture, What Makes The Best And The Worst Board Members & Why Every Company Has To Have A Pessimist In The Room
- ▶ 17:31 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, we had Mike Maples on the show, and he said that bridges, 99%, or most often, or to the majority, are bridge to nowhere.
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: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 20:19 Harry Stebbings We have Mike Maples on the show, and he said that bridges often lead to peers.
20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- ▶ 21:11 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, as being a super early stage investor, I spoke to Mike Maples, and he said that, Harry, bridge rounds are often a bridge to nowhere. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 2:54 Harry Stebbings And first, a question from the wonderful Mike Maples, who asks, what was the spark for founding TaskRabbit?
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.
- ▶ 4:37 Harry Stebbings We're big fans of both Mike and Bing, but I would love to ask, you mentioned your time with EA there, one of the kind of core category defining companies in the space.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 20:57 unnamed speaker That leads to the very best outcome for everybody involved, and so our board today, for example, you have people like Bing, you have Mike Maples, you have my co-founder, Bob Stevenson, you have Noah Knuff from KP Growth, and each of these… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:38 Harry Stebbings Well, Neil, as I said, I heard so many great things, both from Bing and from Mike, so thank you so much for joining me today.
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. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 17:51 Harry Stebbings Mike Maples actually told me the same thing.
20VC: Why YC Is The Exact Opposite of Proprietary Deal Flow, Why Having No Follow On Dramatically Aligns Incentives & Why Founders Do Not Have To Be Passionate About Their Idea From The Start with Michael Ma, Founding Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures
- ▶ 9:02 Harry Stebbings I had Mike Maples on the show recently, and he said that all bridges lead to nowhere, and they're more like peers. 3 times in the scene
20VC: SaaStr's Jason Lemkin on The 3 Things You Want From Your LPs, Why Most VCs Do Not Add Value & Why The Best VCs Know How To Package Startups For The Next Round
- ▶ 16:39 Jason Lemkin So everyone wants to follow the Mike Maples of the world, the other, the, the Chris Sockers, the breakout folks.
- ▶ 17:49 Jason Lemkin And Mike Maples spoke, and he's one of the most successful seed investors of all times, and he's, that's his learning from the new fund.
20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 13:12 Harry Stebbings Mike Maples once said to me on the show that more often than not, a bridge is actually appear to nowhere.
20VC: Why We Are Valuation & Ownership Insensitive, Why We Do Not Take Board Seats & The Effects Of The Series A Crunch with Topher Conway, Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel
- ▶ 18:32 Harry Stebbings Uh, Mike Maples was on the show last couple of weeks ago and he said, bridge rounds are fine as long as it's a bridge and not a peer that is 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 6:17 Paul Martino But, you know, Mike and Josh and a few others had done it that way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:18 Paul Martino Time and that learning and discovery phrase to use Mike Maple's words.
- ▶ 18:47 Paul Martino This was the aha insight we had when Mike told us to go look at the data.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings To learn more about the list, you can add me on Snapchat at hstebbings, but to the show stay, and I'm thrilled to welcome Mike Maples. 7 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 5:31 Ann Miura-Ko Mike Maples, someone who had just moved out from Texas to become a venture capitalist. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 6:07 Charles Hudson I think one is that because the micro VC folks like Jeff and Aiden and Mike Maples and Steve Anderson and Michael Deering, and I think that first wave of micro VC pioneers, they created an environment where it was okay to
- ▶ 8:54 Charles Hudson Mike Maples was successful before he added Ann, and I think Ann has done a lot to grow the footprint and returns profile at Floodgate.
20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank
- ▶ 24:38 Samir Kaji The, the ones that first took the plunge, you know, folks like Mike Maples and Michael Daring, uh, Steve Anderson, Jeff Clavier, uh,