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Mike Maples

About the Author

Mike Maples Jr. is a cofounder and partner at Floodgate, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that pioneered seed stage investing. Floodgate backed many of the most dynamic start-ups of the last two decades at their inception, including Twitter, Twitch, Lyft, Okta, Cruise Automation, Applied Intuition, and Rappi. He is host of the podcast Pattern Breakers, where he hosts legendary entrepreneurs and thought leaders.

Peter Ziebelman splits his time between academia and the business world. He is on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches entrepreneurship with a focus on how AI is transforming the start-up landscape. He cofounded Palo Alto Venture Partners, consults on entrepreneurship with Fortune 500 companies, and serves as secretary and as a board member for the nonprofit National Council on Aging (NCOA.org).