Mike Maples
also referred to as: mike maple
17 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2021 by Mike Maples · across every show →
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Jun 16, 2021 bullish
Maples: The US and Western world will invest heavily in tech-forward infrastructure
“I just believe fundamentally the United States, the Western world are going to decide they need to invest for real in tech forward infrastructure. And then on the flip side of that, they're going to realize our infrastructure is vulnerable to Cyber hackers and…”
Jun 16, 2021 negative
Jun 16, 2021
Maples: Great startup founders act like time travelers visualizing different futures
“If you want to start a great startup, don't try to think of a startup. And the reason for that is that great startup founders are like time travelers, and they get out of the present, and they visualize different futures that are a breakthrough, that break fre…”
Jun 16, 2021
Maples: Early-stage startups create movements that eventually generate entirely new markets
“Companies have markets that could be segmented, sub-segmented, and classified. Startups don't. Startups, they create movements. They create, they have a secret about the future. They get early believers who co-conspire with them to create a, co-create a differ…”
Jun 16, 2021 positive
Maples: Niching down and declaring what you are not for creates power
“Sometimes by saying what you're not for, but like niching down, you're very powerful to the people who care about your niche because people say, where have you been all my life? And so what you're trying to do is find that set of like-minded co-conspirators Fo…”
Jun 16, 2021 neutral
Maples: Early-stage startups are founder talent and insights, not companies
“I don't even think a startup is a company, right? So I think a startup is, The capabilities and talents of the founders and their insight about the future and what you're betting is on two things. One is that their insights, right? And two is they're good enou…”
Jun 16, 2021 positive
Maples: Software will reduce the need to work at traditional companies
“Like people said that robots are going to eat the jobs, but I think that's precisely the opposite of what's true. I think that software is going to reduce the need for people to think they need to work at companies because it's going to all the things I would …”
Jun 16, 2021
Maples: Focus on comparative advantage, ignore domains where you cannot excel
“There's lots of ways to get rich in this world and there's lots of ways to succeed in business. Every comes back to everybody should know what's my comparative advantage and not be preoccupied by all the things you can't be the best at.”
Jun 16, 2021
Maples: Breakthrough products inherently cannot be compared to existing market solutions
“If you're trying to create a breakthrough by definition, it breaks free from the present. So by definition, it can't be compared to something in the present. Because if it's comparable to what's in the present, it's too incremental. It's too conventional.”
Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021
Maples: Be T-shaped with broad curiosity and a few deep specialties
“You want to be a mile wide and an inch deep so that you just can appropriate creative ideas from the world. But then I think you want to be a mile deep somewhere. So it's like a T, right? And it's like, that's why you read several books at a time, but then you…”
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Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021 bullish
Maples: Software-defined network companies will continuously displace legacy industrial firms
“And so in sector after sector of our economy, the companies that are software defined at their core, I believe software defined network centric companies at their core are going to keep winning. And they're going to keep displacing the companies that think of …”
Jun 16, 2021 neutral
Maples: 90% of early-stage venture profits come from pivoted startup ideas
“90% of your profits come from things that started out different, and so my theory on that is the way to succeed is to realize that a startup isn't a company at all, and that it's the insights and the founders, and you're, you make fun of your ability to predic…”
Jul 9, 2021 positive