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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

Mike's podcast

Mike's twitter

narrativemonopoly.com

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39 episodes

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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.

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

Mike's podcast

Mike's twitter

narrativemonopoly.com

  continue reading

39 episodes

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