Every year, thousands of startups are born across the country— but only a few break through the noise and become legendary companies.
For the last 5 years, the Floodgate team has taught a course at Stanford, showing students and aspiring founders how to build breakthrough ideas, products, and companies. The course has become the home for the latest thinking on how to find, help and establish true belief in the best companies before the rest of the world believes. Now it's your turn...
Join us on May 27th for an exciting deep-dive webinar all about strategically building your "breakthrough"— featuring exclusive insights from Floodgate partner, Iris Choi. Together we'll learn how to...
— Find and test breakthrough concepts
— Strategically build breakthrough products
— Become synonymous with your category on a global, breakthrough scale.
— Learn our core frameworks & case studies we’ve honed from backing and working with the founders of Lyft, Twitch, Okta, and more!
We’ll also have a live Q&A so you can engage directly with our expert panel. Plus, live polling questions will help you learn from your peers, and there will be live access to exclusive tips & tools.
Great companies don’t just come from a couple of schools or from certain types of people; they can start anywhere and by anyone.
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Iris Choi is a Partner at Floodgate. She drives corporate relationships and works closely with portfolio companies on a range of strategic areas, including business development and financings.
Before Floodgate, Iris spent 10 years in investment banking, most recently with Goldman Sachs, focused on mergers and acquisitions. She worked directly with CEOs of leading consumer internet, enterprise software, and digital media companies, including The Walt Disney Company, SanDisk, Sabre Holdings, Yahoo!, and Activision.
Before Goldman Sachs, Iris advised broadband service providers on market entry and financing options throughout Europe, and started working in early stage venture capital in the early 2000s.
Iris holds a BA in Economics from Harvard, as well as a MBA in Finance from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Prior to SVB, Phil worked for Techstars and a pair of early stage VC firms, where he spent his time scouting for high potential companies, conducting market research and performing due diligence.
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