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Mike Maples
Co-founding Partner
Floodgate
Mike Maples is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate.  He has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade and was also named a “Rising Star” by FORTUNE and profiled by Harvard Business School for his lifetime contributions to entrepreneurship.

Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was involved as a founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems (IPO TIVS, acquired by IBM) and Motive (IPO MOTV, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent)
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Ecosystem
APRIL 8
10:25 - 10:50 AM

The VCs Behind the AI Narrative Machine

Narratives move markets, and VCs are increasingly the ones crafting them. From press cycles to X threads to public policy, this conversation breaks down how investors shape the public conversation around AI and why it matters more than most founders realize.
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