How to Make a Difference (with Mike Maples, Jr)

You have to be different to make a difference And that you don't always even know if you're right when you're different In fact all you know at first is that you're being different But in order to have super performance in order to be extraordinary you have to leave the ordinary You have to depart from the consensus And so that is not natural for us because we get rewarded as we grow up for conforming to the consensus for playing the rules that are as they are given And so I think that that's pretty important And that's always something that I've carried with me that he taught me

Mike Maples, Jr is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and the co-founder of FLOODGATE, a leading seed stage fund in Silicon Valley that invested in companies like Twitter, Twitch, Okta, and Outreach at the very beginning of their startup 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 startup funding.

[jasonc]

Irrelevant... I think the normal need to confrom is a crutch. I think the aspect of conforming is irrelevant and people should be who they are.