BioMike is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate, a venture firm in the bay area. Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Lyft, Clover Health, Okta, and Chegg. Before founding Floodgate Mike was founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems and Motive. Mike is the host of the Starting Greatness podcast, which shares startup lessons from the super performers.Times1:10 - Intro to Mike2:10 - Centralization vs decentralization13:40 - Metcalfe’s law & deploying capital based on it17:10 - How does network capitalism and decentralization connect?21:40 - Federalism & Austin23:25 - Nihilism vs A Time to Build28:40 - How do you get people to believe in progress?36:00 - Impact of culture39:40 - Technology & institutions43:00 - Nation states vs micro-sovereignties (like bitcoin)46:40 - Mike’s framework for companies of Beer Slammer vs Wine Sipper applied to ideas58:10 - Choices, agency, & optimism1:00:10 -  Mayor Francis Suarez1:03:00 - Mike’s closing wisdomLinksMike's podcastMike's twitternarrativemonopoly.com