Mike Maples, Jr

Seed investing OG at Floodgate; Author of the bestselling book Pattern Breakers; Co-conspirator with awesome Startup Founders who want to dominate the future.

Palo Alto, California, United States

About

Specialties: Category Design, Enterprise Sales, Languaging, New Knowledge Creation

Experience

  • Founding Partner at FLOODGATE
    2006 - Present · 20 yrs 6 mos

    Our objective is to invest in the extraordinary top "point 1 percent" companies earlier than anyone else and provide as much help as possible in realizing extraordinary outcomes. Example investments include Twitter, Lyft, Bazaarvoice, Sparefoot, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Doubledutch, Twitch.tv, Playdom, Chegg, Demandforce, Rappi, Smule, and Outreach.

  • Co-Founder at Motive Inc
    May 1997 - Jan 2005 · 7 yrs 9 mos

    Co-Founded Motive, Inc in 1997 (IPO 2004, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent in 2006). Served in various roles, including Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, GM of a Business Unit, and Business Development.

  • Director, Product Marketing at Tivoli Systems (now part of IBM Software Group)
    Jul 1994 - May 1997 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Started as product manager for Tivoli's PC desktop management products. Took over responsibility for deployment products and then product marketing for the complete Tivoli product line as part of the IBM Software Group.

  • Product Manager at Silicon Graphics
    Aug 1990 - Aug 1992 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Product Manager for Digital Media hardware in what was then known as Entry Systems Division (ESD).