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A Fireside Chat with Silicon Valley Legend Mike Maples, Jr.

October 22, 2024

Join Crater Ventures and The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club for a fireside chat with one of Silicon Valley's most recognized VC's on Wednesday, October 30th from 3:30-5 pm in Beckman Behavioral Biology (BBB) B180!

​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.

Light refreshments provided. Please register at this link.