289: Mike Maples on Finding World-Class Founders

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Mike Maples, Jr is a Partner at Floodgate. He has been on the Forbes Midas List since 2010. He is one of the most successful early stage technology investors in the world with previous investments in Twitter, Twitch.tv, and Lyft. In this conversation, we discuss how to build a breakthrough company, why a founder's insight is more important than their original product, a new scientific method for identifying attractive markets, and what patterns Mike has recognized in the best founders over the years. ============================= This episode is brought to you by Koyfin. It is the only software tool that I use when trying to better understand the financial markets. They are a web-based platform that lets you analyze stocks, ETFs, mutual funds and other assets all in one place. I’ve been using it every day to track what's going on in the market and I think if you try it, you will too. Koyfin has a ton of high quality data, powerful functionality and a clean interface. The best part is that it is free. You can sign up at http://www.koyfin.com =============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 45,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at www.pompletter.com

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0:00.0	This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp podcast. Simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off.
0:11.0	Mike Maples Jr. is a partner at Floodgate. He has been on the Forbes Midas list since 2010.
0:18.1	He is one of the most successful early stage technology investors in the world with previous investments in Twitter, Twitch TV, and Lyft.
0:25.8	In this conversation, we discuss how to build a breakthrough company, why founders' insight is more important than their original product, a new scientific method for identifying attractive markets, and what patterns Mike has recognized in the best founders over the years.
0:41.5	I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope you do as well.
0:45.1	Before we get into the episode, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors.
0:48.8	This episode is brought to you by Coyfin.
0:51.4	Coyfin's an awesome new product.
0:53.3	It's the only software tool that I use when trying to better understand the financial
0:57.0	markets.
0:58.0	They're a web-based platform that lets you analyze stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and other assets
1:03.0	all in one place.
1:04.3	They've got charts and plenty of data.
1:06.5	I've been using it every day to track what's going on in the market during these tumultuous
1:09.8	times, and I think if you try it, you'll love it.
1:12.7	Coyfin has a ton of high quality data, powerful functionality, and a clean interface.
1:17.3	It's basically a Bloomberg 2.0.
1:19.7	The best part is that it is completely free.
1:22.3	You can sign up at www.coiffin.com.
1:26.7	That's c-o-y-f-n-com. Coiffin.com. That's k-o-y-f-n.com. You can also go into the description and there's a link there to
1:33.5	click. Don't forget, I also write a daily letter to over 45,000 investors about business, technology,
1:39.8	and finance. I break down complex topics be easy to understand language while sharing opinions on
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