Mike Maples Jr is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate. Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was a founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM) and Motive (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.) Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Clover Health, Okta, Outreach, ngmoco, Chegg, Bazaarvoice, and Demandforce. Mike also co-authored the book “Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future”.