99 Episodes

  1. Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.

    Published: 4/4/2020
  2. Lessons of Greatness: Distribution, Distribution, Distribution

    Published: 3/2/2020
  3. Lessons of Greatness: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big

    Published: 2/18/2020
  4. Why Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm is a must-read for Ambitious Startup Founders

    Published: 2/18/2020
  5. Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey

    Published: 2/3/2020
  6. Lessons of Greatness: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait

    Published: 1/21/2020
  7. How Todd McKinnon of Okta believed (even when he sometimes didn't) in the inevitability of breakout success.

    Published: 1/21/2020
  8. Lessons of Greatness: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product

    Published: 1/13/2020
  9. Lessons of Greatness: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster

    Published: 12/30/2019
  10. Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba

    Published: 12/30/2019
  11. Lessons of Greatness: Find your inner MacGyver

    Published: 12/23/2019
  12. Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”

    Published: 12/23/2019
  13. Lessons of Greatness: Living in the Future

    Published: 12/16/2019
  14. Lessons of Greatness: Real Artists Get Out of the Building

    Published: 12/9/2019
  15. Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry

    Published: 12/9/2019
  16. Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"

    Published: 12/2/2019
  17. Lessons of Greatness: You Need a Breakthrough Insight

    Published: 12/2/2019
  18. Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit”

    Published: 12/2/2019
  19. Why Greatness is a Decision

    Published: 11/19/2019

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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.