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#19 - Mike Maples, Jr., Relentless Optimist
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Bio
Mike is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate, a venture firm in the bay area. Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Lyft, Clover Health, Okta, and Chegg. Before founding Floodgate Mike was founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems and Motive. Mike is the host of the Starting Greatness podcast, which shares startup lessons from the super performers.
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- 1:10 - Intro to Mike
- 2:10 - Centralization vs decentralization
- 13:40 - Metcalfe’s law & deploying capital based on it
- 17:10 - How does network capitalism and decentralization connect?
- 21:40 - Federalism & Austin
- 23:25 - Nihilism vs A Time to Build
- 28:40 - How do you get people to believe in progress?
- 36:00 - Impact of culture
- 39:40 - Technology & institutions
- 43:00 - Nation states vs micro-sovereignties (like bitcoin)
- 46:40 - Mike’s framework for companies of Beer Slammer vs Wine Sipper applied to ideas
- 58:10 - Choices, agency, & optimism
- 1:00:10 - Mayor Francis Suarez
- 1:03:00 - Mike’s closing wisdom
Links
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Manage episode 294595108 series 2903307
Bio
Mike is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate, a venture firm in the bay area. Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Lyft, Clover Health, Okta, and Chegg. Before founding Floodgate Mike was founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems and Motive. Mike is the host of the Starting Greatness podcast, which shares startup lessons from the super performers.
Times
- 1:10 - Intro to Mike
- 2:10 - Centralization vs decentralization
- 13:40 - Metcalfe’s law & deploying capital based on it
- 17:10 - How does network capitalism and decentralization connect?
- 21:40 - Federalism & Austin
- 23:25 - Nihilism vs A Time to Build
- 28:40 - How do you get people to believe in progress?
- 36:00 - Impact of culture
- 39:40 - Technology & institutions
- 43:00 - Nation states vs micro-sovereignties (like bitcoin)
- 46:40 - Mike’s framework for companies of Beer Slammer vs Wine Sipper applied to ideas
- 58:10 - Choices, agency, & optimism
- 1:00:10 - Mayor Francis Suarez
- 1:03:00 - Mike’s closing wisdom
Links
39 قسمت
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