98 Episodes

  1. Emmett Shear: How Twitch Changed Media by Merging it with Gaming

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/20/2021
  20. Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig of Applied Intuition: A Startup Designed to Win

    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.