Mike Maples Jr.
Seed investor; founding partner of Floodgate, author of Pattern Breakers.
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- Mike Maples Jr. is an American venture capitalist and founding partner of Floodgate, which he created with Ann Miura-Ko; it was named Maples Investments until March 2010.
- He made early bets on Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi and Applied Intuition, has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times, and wrote Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future (2024) with Peter Ziebelman.
Key facts
- Floodgate
- Founding partner; created with Ann Miura-Ko as Maples Investments, renamed March 20102
- Early investments
- Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi, Applied Intuition1
- Midas List
- Eight times (as of July 2024)1
- Book
- Pattern Breakers, with Peter Ziebelman (2024)1
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