99 Episodes

  1. Breakthrough Lessons: Learning to Savor Surprises

    Published: 5/20/2024
  2. Emmett Shear: How Twitch Changed Media by Merging it with Gaming

    Published: 5/13/2024
  3. Breakthrough Lessons: The One Thing That Matters Most…

    Published: 4/29/2024
  4. Michael Seibel: “The Godfounder” Discusses Justin.tv, Twitch, and Y Combinator

    Published: 4/29/2024
  5. Welcome to Pattern Breakers

    Published: 4/29/2024
  6. Breakthrough Lessons: Nail Your Niche

    Published: 6/12/2023
  7. Daniel Ek: How Spotify Revolutionized The Music Business

    Published: 6/12/2023
  8. Breakthrough Lessons: Crisis Reveals Greatness

    Published: 3/27/2023
  9. Untold lessons from the SVB bank run

    Published: 3/27/2023
  10. Breakthrough Lessons: Refuse Mediocrity

    Published: 12/15/2022
  11. Blake Scholl: How Boom Supersonic Took Flight

    Published: 12/15/2022
  12. Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 2)

    Published: 8/22/2022
  13. Breakthrough Lessons: Leslie’s Compass

    Published: 8/22/2022
  14. Breakthrough Lessons: The Sales Learning Curve

    Published: 8/1/2022
  15. Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1)

    Published: 8/1/2022
  16. Breakthrough Lessons: The Infinite Game

    Published: 5/16/2022
  17. Tobi Lutke: A Startup Founder Arming The Rebels Against Amazon

    Published: 5/16/2022
  18. Breakthrough Lessons: The Artistry of Startup Breakthroughs

    Published: 2/28/2022
  19. Tim Westergren: How The Band Kept Playing At Pandora

    Published: 2/28/2022
  20. Breakthrough Lessons: “BIG D" Design

    Published: 12/20/2021

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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.