The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: How To Do a 10x Seed Fund in 2025 | Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups an Founders | Lessons from Losing Billions Missing Airbnb and Pinterest & Investing Lessons from Charlie Munger with Mike Maples @ Floodgate
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Mike Maples is one of the OG seed investors of the last two decades. As a co-founding Partner at Floodgate, Mike has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade. Some of Mike's investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Clover Health, Okta, Outreach, Chegg, Demandforce, and Applied Intuition.
In Today's Episode with Mike Maples We Discuss:
Does Seed Even Make Sense as an Asset Class?
Fund Size and Strategy: How to Do a 10x Fund?
Follow-On Investments: Are they BS?
Finding Inefficiencies in the Market
Exit Strategies and Liquidity Events: When to Sell?
How Floodgate Lost Billions Missing Airbnb and Pinterest
3 Frameworks for Evaluating Startups
Case Studies: Zoom and Okta
How to Truly Analyse Product-Market Fit
Challenges with Overfunding Startups
2024 in Review: Company and Fund of the Year
Predictions for 2025
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