Mike Maples Pattern Breakers Tour - UC San Diego
Join Crater Ventures and The Office for Innovation and Commercialization for a fireside chat with one of Silicon Valley's most recognized VC's.
Mike Maples is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate. He has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade and was also named a “Rising Star” by FORTUNE and profiled by Harvard Business School for his lifetime contributions to entrepreneurship.
Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was involved as a founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems (IPO TIVS, acquired by IBM) and Motive (IPO MOTV, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.)
Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Clover Health, Okta, Outreach, Chegg, Demandforce, and Applied Intuition. Mike is also the author of the National Bestselling book Pattern Breakers and host of the Pattern Breakers podcast, which shares startup lessons from the super performers.
This chat will be moderated by Shawn Xu, a former UCSD Alum and current Partner at Lowercarbon Capital. Previously, he was a Partner at OnDeck, Investor at Floodgate, Forbes 30 under 30 for VC, and Managing Partner at Dorm Room Fund. Before investing, Shawn led international expansion at Square and has been a tech policy advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Crater Ventures ☄️
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Office of Innovation and Commercialization 🔱
Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) aligns resources to encourage and support an innovative community comprised of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community advocates. Our mission is to accelerate the commercialization of UC San Diego innovations and contribute to a sustainable society.
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