Fireside Chat with Mike Maples of Floodgate
Join us for an engaging fireside chat with Mike Maples, co-founding Partner at Floodgate, and one of Silicon Valley's most successful venture capitalists. Mike will share his career journey, insights on securing startup funding, and key lessons from his years of investing in early-stage companies. He will also take questions from the audience, offering a unique opportunity to learn directly from a leader in the venture capital world.
Requests to attend this event received from current Yale students will be given preference.
Mike Maples Bio:
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.