Pattern Breakers

By Floodgate

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Host Mike Maples Jr. from venture capital firm Floodgate offers lessons from the rare startup super performers — BEFORE they were successful. Pattern Breakers features interviews with some of Silicon Valley’s most legendary entrepreneurs and thought leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger, business maverick Mark Cuban, and Shopify co-founder Tobi Lütke.

Episode Date
Josh Reeves: How Gusto Took The Pain Out Of Payroll
Dec 16, 2024
Breakthrough Lesson: RIP To Old-School Marketing
Oct 07, 2024
Niels Hoven: Teaching Two Year-Olds to Read Like Second Graders
Sep 23, 2024
Daphne Koller: Changing Lives With Coursera
Aug 05, 2024
Pattern Breakers: Which Startups Change the Future?
Jul 29, 2024
A Sneak Peek at Pattern Breakers
Jul 09, 2024
Maddie Hall: A Different Path to the Future
Jul 01, 2024
Breakthrough Lessons: Founder-Future Fit
Jun 24, 2024
Justin Kan: Pattern Breaker Personified
Jun 10, 2024
Breakthrough Lessons: The Value of a Superbuilder
Jun 03, 2024
Kyle Vogt: A Problem Solver With A Purpose
May 27, 2024
Breakthrough Lessons: Learning to Savor Surprises
May 20, 2024
Emmett Shear: How Twitch Changed Media by Merging it with Gaming
May 13, 2024
Breakthrough Lessons: The One Thing That Matters Most…
Apr 29, 2024
Michael Seibel: “The Godfounder” Discusses Justin.tv, Twitch, and Y Combinator
Apr 29, 2024
Welcome to Pattern Breakers
Apr 29, 2024
Breakthrough Lessons: Nail Your Niche
Jun 12, 2023
Daniel Ek: How Spotify Revolutionized The Music Business
Jun 12, 2023
Breakthrough Lessons: Crisis Reveals Greatness
Mar 27, 2023
Untold lessons from the SVB bank run
Mar 27, 2023
Breakthrough Lessons: Refuse Mediocrity
Dec 15, 2022
Blake Scholl: How Boom Supersonic Took Flight
Dec 15, 2022
Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 2)
Aug 22, 2022
Breakthrough Lessons: Leslie’s Compass
Aug 22, 2022
Breakthrough Lessons: The Sales Learning Curve
Aug 01, 2022
Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1)
Aug 01, 2022
Breakthrough Lessons: The Infinite Game
May 16, 2022
Tobi Lutke: A Startup Founder Arming The Rebels Against Amazon
May 16, 2022
Tim Westergren: How The Band Kept Playing At Pandora
Feb 28, 2022
Breakthrough Lessons: The Artistry of Startup Breakthroughs
Feb 28, 2022
Breakthrough Lessons: “BIG D" Design
Dec 20, 2021
Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig of Applied Intuition: A Startup Designed to Win
Dec 20, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: How to Defeat "We're F*cked, It's Over" (WFIO) Moments
Nov 15, 2021
Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible
Nov 15, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: The future is DESIGNED, not predicted
Nov 01, 2021
Stephane Bancel of Moderna: $5B and 10 years on the path to changing humanity
Nov 01, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Apply Game Design to Business Software
Sep 21, 2021
Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using
Sep 21, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: The Myth of TAM
Aug 23, 2021
Julia Hartz: From Zero to One to IPO and Beyond
Aug 23, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Price Before You Build
Aug 02, 2021
Pricing Guru Madhavan Ramanujam: How Smart Startups Design Their Products Around the Price
Aug 02, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Find your wave before your market
Jul 19, 2021
Jerry Yang: How Yahoo went from a hobby to the early King of the Internet
Jul 19, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Hire like your life depends on it
Jun 28, 2021
Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare: How to build a better Company as well as a better Internet
Jun 28, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Why you must master risk-taking to seize greatness
Jun 01, 2021
Vinod Khosla: Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed
Jun 01, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Design your category
May 17, 2021
Christopher Lochhead: Why Legendary Startups create Categories
May 17, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: DESIGN for network effects
May 03, 2021
Anu Hariharan: How to think about network effects for your startup, from the beginning
May 03, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Start a Movement; not just a business
Apr 19, 2021
David Sacks: Legendary Startup Product Expert
Apr 19, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Be a Learn-it-All; not a Know-it-All
Apr 05, 2021
Matt Mullenweg: How a modest empire builder powered a huge chunk of the web
Apr 05, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: ALWAYS know your competitive edge
Mar 22, 2021
Mark Cuban: You only have to be right once...if you take big enough swings along the way
Mar 22, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Thinking in Bets
Mar 08, 2021
Annie Duke: Decision-making Secrets from a World Series of Poker Champion
Mar 08, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: Get REAL
Feb 22, 2021
How Tim Ferriss found product-market fit for “The Four Hour Workweek”
Feb 22, 2021
Welcome to Season 2!
Feb 22, 2021
Breakthrough Lessons: You are Yoda, not Luke
Jul 27, 2020
Nancy Duarte: Why storytelling is vital to entrepreneurship
Jul 27, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: Why the world needs breakthrough builders; How it can be you
Jul 06, 2020
Mike Maples and Shane Parrish: How to create a Breakthrough
Jul 06, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: Don't Just Be Resilient: How to be Anti-Fragile
Jun 10, 2020
Manny Medina: From Hell and Back to the Threshold of Greatness
Jun 10, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: You have to take the Initiative
May 11, 2020
Steve Blank: How to turn the tables on COVID-19
May 11, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: Don't Mess with Metcalfe's Law
Apr 04, 2020
Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.
Apr 04, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: Distribution, Distribution, Distribution
Mar 02, 2020
Reid Hoffman: The Network Philosopher King
Mar 02, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big
Feb 18, 2020
Why Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm is a must-read for Ambitious Startup Founders
Feb 18, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: Why Finding Undiscovered Talent is the Winning Mindset
Feb 03, 2020
Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey
Feb 03, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait
Jan 21, 2020
How Todd McKinnon of Okta believed (even when he sometimes didn't) in the inevitability of breakout success.
Jan 21, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product
Jan 13, 2020
How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't
Jan 13, 2020
Breakthrough Lessons: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster
Dec 30, 2019
Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba
Dec 30, 2019
Breakthrough Lessons: Find your inner MacGyver
Dec 23, 2019
Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”
Dec 23, 2019
Breakthrough Lessons: Living in the Future
Dec 16, 2019
Marc Andreessen: “Was Netscape an Overnight Success?”
Dec 16, 2019
Breakthrough Lessons: Real Artists Get Out of the Building
Dec 09, 2019
Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry
Dec 09, 2019
Breakthrough Lessons: Hack Value Before Hacking Growth
Dec 02, 2019
Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"
Dec 02, 2019
Breakthrough Lessons: You Need a Breakthrough Insight
Dec 02, 2019
Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit”
Dec 02, 2019
Why Greatness is a Decision
Nov 19, 2019