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Host Mike Maples Jr from venture capital firm FLOODGATE offers lessons from the startup super performers—BEFORE they were successful—featuring interviews with some of Silicon Valley’s most l...
For most of his 20s, James Beshara tried to go big as a startup founder in a hot category where he burned tons of money in hopes of getting...
When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed over 48 hours in March 2023, it marked the third-largest bank failure in United States history and the la...
Lyft co-founder John Zimmer helped spark a movement to revolutionize transportation, but the road was never a smooth one. Zimmer and co-foun...
When Amplitude launched in 2012, the analytics market looked crowded, and the company spent more than a year struggling to find any traction...
When Wade Foster was a kid growing up in Jefferson City, Missouri, there weren’t many models for how to carve out a career in entrepreneursh...
Spreadsheets were originally designed for finance people. But when Howie Liu and his co-founders started Airtable in 2012, they had a deeper...
Long before he attended Stanford, founded software giant Trilogy, or became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, Joe Liemandt wrote a high...
Mårten Mickos isn't the kind of CEO who tries to dream up world-changing ideas or invent brand new markets. Perhaps best known for leading M...
Best known as the CEO who helped transform Google from a promising startup into one of the best businesses in human history, Eric Schmidt ha...
At just 13 years of age, Pedro Franceschi was one of the first to jailbreak the iPhone. By the time he was 15 he had co-founded a payments c...
The most successful founders don't usually chase startup ideas. Instead, they're pulled toward problems they can't ignore. Back in 2009, Mit...
For startups in the zero to one phase, finding product-market fit isn't everything. It’s the only thing. And there are few people in the ent...
Amjad Masad's journey is defined by relentless persistence. Born and raised in Jordan, he borrowed computers to teach himself coding, and th...
When the team behind Box first went looking for funding back in 2005, they tried just about every trick in the book. They sent Bill Gates a...
Guillermo Rauch didn’t find success by accident. He began working on computers as a kid growing up in Argentina and was hooked immediately,...
Long before Plaid became a $13.4 billion fintech juggernaut, it was just another struggling startup. Co-founders Zach Perret and William Hoc...
As the co-founder of Robinhood, Baiju Bhatt didn't just help launch a company. He sparked a movement that fundamentally shifted the dynamics...
When Josh Reeves, Tomer London and Edward Kim founded Gusto in 2012, roughly 40 percent of the employers in the United States were still doi...
Most startups stick to traditional methods of getting their message out. Pattern Breakers, however, don't follow the old rules of marketing....
The team behind the educational technology company Mentava is a small one, but its product idea is extremely ambitious: An app that teaches...
Few startup founders follow a path to success like Daphne Koller, a polymath whose academic career in machine learning, computer vision, and...
On this special episode of Pattern Breakers, host Mike Maples Jr. of Floodgate joins LinkedIn founder and legendary investor Reid Hoffman fo...
Today is a huge day for Pattern Breakers , the book. Co-written with Peter Zeibelman of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Pattern Br...
There is no single path to becoming the founder of a pattern-breaking startup. For Maddie Hall, her journey began with a crucial choice: to...
Check out the Pattern Breakers Blog at patternbreakers.substack.com for even more Pattern Breaking content from Mike. Mike's book Pattern Br...
If pattern breaker was a term in the dictionary, you just might find an image of Justin Kan. From his attempts as a teenager to send a camer...
In the early days of a start-up, the superbuilder can be as important to greatness as the start-up leader, and they’re often not the same pe...
Kyle Vogt has always been fascinated with designing robots and machines. From his youngest days, he retrofitted his father's car to drive it...
The ability to notice and savor surprises is a key overlooked skill of the greatest founders. It allows you to narrow in on the types of cap...
Emmett Shear was a gamer long before he helped define one of the most important new media companies at the intersection of gaming, media, an...
In the early days of a startup, finding product-market fit is paramount. Once you have it, failure is almost impossible. Without it, you can...
Michael Seibel didn’t set out to become a legendary startup founder. As a young man, his sights were set on politics, dreaming of a future o...
Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate is back with a new season of his podcast, once called Starting Greatness, now renamed Pattern Breakers. The fo...
Founders are naturally drawn to the tantalizing potential of their product reaching a vast market, but the route to victory starts with nail...
When he was a little boy growing up in Sweden, Daniel Ek was obsessed with two things: the binary realm of computers and the artistry of mus...
Startup founders dealt with uncertainty, stress and trauma in the wake of the run on Silicon Valley Bank, but the most important lessons fro...
The recent run on Silicon Valley Bank led to a variety of accusations, recriminations and finger-pointing on social media, but how can FOUND...
When we REFUSE to accept mediocrity, we can start building greatness. But how can you avoid the pitfalls of learned helplessness and help yo...
More than fifty years after the first Concorde took flight, consumer air travel is actually SLOWER. Blake Scholl and his team at Boom Supers...
Mike Maples, Jr of Floodgate welcomes back go-to-market expert and Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer Mark Leslie for the second...
When a startup product goes to market, the two key muscles it can flex are marketing and sales. In nearly every facet of a startup product,...
When a startup launches a new product, it's tempting to ramp its sales force too quickly. Often, this leads to a crash-and-burn scenario for...
During the 1990s, Mark co-founded Veritas Systems, which he piloted from nothing to 6,000 employees and $1.5B in revenue in a decade. Now a...
We’re taught from a young age about *finite* sporting games like baseball, basketball, and soccer. Or board games like checkers or chess. Or...
Growing up in Germany, Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lutke was never quite comfortable with people telling him to do things because that's...
Tim Westergren maxed out 11 credit cards, racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and was rejected 348 times for a second round...
Too many people mistakenly believe that being a good entrepreneur comes from simply talking to customers and solving their pain. But the mos...
Lots of people think about design from the perspective of how a product should look and function. But design can be applied to greatness on...
Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig both grew up in the backyard of American automotive giant General Motors in Detroit, but didn’t cross paths un...
Your startup will face multiple WFIO moments on the path to greatness...COUNT ON IT. But that doesn’t mean you should let these moments get...