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From Startup to ExitGen AI Series - The AI agent redefining travel: Managing Director Mike Fridgen, Madrona Venture LabsSend us a textLearn about the founding of Otto from Mike Fridgen, the Managing Director of Madrona Venture Labs where this concept was incubated. Otto is your personal AI travel agent that seeks to be as valuable and insightful as a dedicated personal assistant. Otto offers enterprise-grade travel booking and servicing capabilities through an easy-to-use AI travel agent that autonomously plans, books, and manages your travel, even during your trip.As Managing Director of Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), Mike Fridgen leads the studio's mission to partner with founders from day one to create extraordinary...
2025-01-0343 min
North Star LeadersEntrepreneurial Impact with Mike FridgenWhat drives entrepreneurs to persist through the toughest challenges? Mike Fridgen, CEO of Madrona Venture Labs, joins Lindsay Pedersen on North Star Leaders Podcast to explore the dynamics of purpose-driven businesses and the importance of deeply connecting to the problem you're solving. They discuss how purpose fuels economic value, how mission-driven founders can navigate market shifts, and the balance between personal passion and the high-growth demands of venture-backed companies.You will hear Lindsay and Mike talk about:
Mission-Driven Leadership: Mike emphasizes that successful founders are deeply connected to the problem...
2024-10-1530 min
All Who Wander with Anne Taylor HartzellMike + 10 Trips: Prioritizing family time + intentional tradeoffsHow Mike Fridgen, serial entrepreneur, company builder, dad, and co-founder of Madrona Venture Labs, a startup studio based in Seattle, found his way through a career and created space for 10 epic family trips in 10 years. In this episode you will learn: How Mike founded his first company at just 19 years old as a student at the University of Washington and has since founded, launched, sold, and advised countless startups.The lessons he has learned about the importance of patience and making intentional tradeoffs as a busy dad + executiveHow his passion for innovation, working with amazing people, an...
2023-05-1641 min
Startup Project: Build the future#20 Mike Fridgen: Seattle based Startup Incubator Madrona Venture LabsIn this Episode of Startup Project, Nataraj talked to Mike Fridgen, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs a Seattle based tech startup incubator. Some of the companies incubated include Style Genome (Acq by Wayfair), Chatitive (Acq by MailChimp), Message Yes (Acq by Nordstrom) & more. Before joining Madrona Venture Labs Mike was part of founding teams at Farecast (Acq by Microsoft) & Decide (Acq by Ebay) where he led product and growth strategies.
Full Conversation includes:
Farecast.com (Predicting prices) - Acquired by Microsoft
Decide.com (next gen consumer reports) - Acquired by Ebay
Through line across being...
2022-05-1532 min