Pattern Breakers
A podcast by Floodgate
98 Episodes
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Pedro Franceschi: Lessons from an Evolving Entrepreneur, from Hacking iPhones to Building Brex
Published: 6/30/2025 -
Mitchell Hashimoto: How Solving His Own Problem Sparked HashiCorp
Published: 6/16/2025 -
Jake Knapp: The Founder’s Guide to Product-Market Fit
Published: 5/5/2025 -
Amjad Masad: Resolve, Persistence, and the Rise of Replit
Published: 4/15/2025 -
Aaron Levie: The Restless Founder Plotting the Future of Cloud Storage and AI
Published: 3/31/2025 -
Guillermo Rauch: The Product Visionary Fueling Vercel and Millions of Developers
Published: 3/17/2025 -
Zach Perret: The Survival Story of a Fintech Giant
Published: 2/25/2025 -
Baiju Bhatt: First Robinhood, Next …. Outer Space?
Published: 1/28/2025 -
Josh Reeves: How Gusto Took The Pain Out Of Payroll
Published: 12/16/2024 -
Breakthrough Lesson: RIP To Old-School Marketing
Published: 10/7/2024 -
Niels Hoven: Teaching Two Year-Olds to Read Like Second Graders
Published: 9/23/2024 -
Daphne Koller: Changing Lives With Coursera
Published: 8/5/2024 -
Pattern Breakers: Which Startups Change the Future?
Published: 7/29/2024 -
A Sneak Peek at Pattern Breakers
Published: 7/9/2024 -
Maddie Hall: A Different Path to the Future
Published: 7/1/2024 -
Breakthrough Lessons: Founder-Future Fit
Published: 6/24/2024 -
Justin Kan: Pattern Breaker Personified
Published: 6/10/2024 -
Breakthrough Lessons: The Value of a Superbuilder
Published: 6/3/2024 -
Kyle Vogt: A Problem Solver With A Purpose
Published: 5/27/2024 -
Breakthrough Lessons: Learning to Savor Surprises
Published: 5/20/2024
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.