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Book SynopsisMike Maples Jr. is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster and co-founder of FLOODGATE, a leading seed stage fund in Silicon Valley that invested in companies like X (formerly Twitter), Twitch, Okta and Outreach at the very beginning of their start-up journeys. An eight-time member of the Forbes Midas List of Top Venture Capital investors, he was one of the pioneers of the seed investing movement, which started in the mid-2000s and now is a mainstream part of start-up funding. Mike has over 80,000 X followers and a popular podcast, Pattern Breakers (previously Starting Greatness).
Peter Ziebelman splits his time between academia and the business world. He teaches entrepreneurs as a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he is the principal instructor for the popular graduate school course on entrepreneurship and venture capital. He has also lectured at the Wharton School and the University of Chicago. He start
