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Mike Maples Jr.

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Mike Maples Jr. is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. He is a pioneer of seed-stage investing and has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times. His notable investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Lyft, Okta, and Chegg, and he is the author of the bestselling book Pattern Breakers.

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