🚀 We're back! Hosting Mike Maples from Floodgate on Feb 9

​⏮ Last time at DraperU

​ It was an absolute pleasure hosting Doug Leone from Sequoia and Mar Hershenson from Pear VC. It was 90 minutes of unfiltered questions. I tried my best to push on things in different ways to get every ounce of frameworks these legends have used over the years. We got great feedback. It was a packed event, 220+ people showed up and the vibe was electric.

​ ❓What cofounders, early employees and early investors should look for

​Mike is one the most brilliant thinkers of the industry and an absolute legend having invested in companies like Twitter when they were trying to do something with podcast summaries and Lyft when it was Zimride.

​Over the years he has developed models for discovering market and technology insights. We will dive deeper into these models, talk about what's happening at seed & early companies right now and hopefully leave you with better mental models to look at early unproven teams.

​You can sign up here to join us for the event next week.

When: Feb 9th/Thursday
Time: 4:30pm-6:30pm
Where: San Mateo

​If we haven't yet, lets connect on LinkedIn! Looking forward to seeing you there if you can make it. It's going to another electric evening.

Best,
Suffiyan
Director, Growth Operations @ DraperU
Investing @ DraperU Ventures
LinkedIn / Twitter

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