Cover Image for Mike Maples Pattern Breakers Tour - Caltech
Cover Image for Mike Maples Pattern Breakers Tour - Caltech
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Mike Maples Pattern Breakers Tour - Caltech

Hosted by Rohan Desai & 5 others
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​​Join Crater Ventures and The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club 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.

Crater Ventures ☄️

​​​​Crater Ventures is a student-run micro-VC built to back student/alumni founders from SoCal universities at the earliest stages. Our team spans 10+ universities and we've previously backed 20+ companies across Southern California. If there is a startup on our campus or beyond, we'll know about it!

​​​​Check out our website to learn more: crater.vc ☄️

Caltech Entrepreneurship Club 🦫

​The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club aims to develop Caltech's startup ecosystem through educational speaker series, networking events, and working with administration to establish a founder friendly environment. We connect students with resources to explore career options outside of academia. We bring in speakers from various backgrounds including venture capital, startup co-founders, consultants, industry scientists, incubators/accelerators, and large biotech and tech companies in LA.

​​​For more information, visit eclub.clubs.caltech.edu/ 🦫

Location
California Institute of Technology
1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Beckman Laboratories of Behavioral Biology, B180
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