Pattern Breakers

A podcast by Floodgate - Mondays

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94 Episodes

  1. Aaron Levie: The Restless Founder Plotting the Future of Cloud Storage and AI

    Published: 3/31/2025
  2. Guillermo Rauch: The Product Visionary Fueling Vercel and Millions of Developers

    Published: 3/17/2025
  3. Zach Perret: The Survival Story of a Fintech Giant

    Published: 2/25/2025
  4. Baiju Bhatt: First Robinhood, Next …. Outer Space?

    Published: 1/28/2025
  5. Josh Reeves: How Gusto Took The Pain Out Of Payroll

    Published: 12/16/2024
  6. Breakthrough Lesson: RIP To Old-School Marketing

    Published: 10/7/2024
  7. Niels Hoven: Teaching Two Year-Olds to Read Like Second Graders

    Published: 9/23/2024
  8. Daphne Koller: Changing Lives With Coursera

    Published: 8/5/2024
  9. Pattern Breakers: Which Startups Change the Future?

    Published: 7/29/2024
  10. A Sneak Peek at Pattern Breakers

    Published: 7/9/2024
  11. Maddie Hall: A Different Path to the Future

    Published: 7/1/2024
  12. Breakthrough Lessons: Founder-Future Fit

    Published: 6/24/2024
  13. Justin Kan: Pattern Breaker Personified

    Published: 6/10/2024
  14. Breakthrough Lessons: The Value of a Superbuilder

    Published: 6/3/2024
  15. Kyle Vogt: A Problem Solver With A Purpose

    Published: 5/27/2024
  16. Breakthrough Lessons: Learning to Savor Surprises

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/29/2024

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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.