98 Episodes

  1. Breakthrough Lessons: How to Defeat "We're F*cked, It's Over" (WFIO) Moments

    Published: 11/15/2021
  2. Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible

    Published: 11/15/2021
  3. Breakthrough Lessons: The future is DESIGNED, not predicted

    Published: 11/1/2021
  4. Stephane Bancel of Moderna: $5B and 10 years on the path to changing humanity

    Published: 11/1/2021
  5. Breakthrough Lessons: Apply Game Design to Business Software

    Published: 9/21/2021
  6. Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using

    Published: 9/21/2021
  7. Breakthrough Lessons: The Myth of TAM

    Published: 8/23/2021
  8. Julia Hartz: From Zero to One to IPO and Beyond

    Published: 8/23/2021
  9. Breakthrough Lessons: Price Before You Build

    Published: 8/2/2021
  10. Pricing Guru Madhavan Ramanujam: How Smart Startups Design Their Products Around the Price

    Published: 8/2/2021
  11. Breakthrough Lessons: Find your wave before your market

    Published: 7/19/2021
  12. Jerry Yang: How Yahoo went from a hobby to the early King of the Internet

    Published: 7/19/2021
  13. Breakthrough Lessons: Hire like your life depends on it

    Published: 6/28/2021
  14. Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare: How to build a better Company as well as a better Internet

    Published: 6/28/2021
  15. Breakthrough Lessons: Why you must master risk-taking to seize greatness

    Published: 6/1/2021
  16. Vinod Khosla: Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed

    Published: 6/1/2021
  17. Breakthrough Lessons: Design your category

    Published: 5/17/2021
  18. Christopher Lochhead: Why Legendary Startups create Categories

    Published: 5/17/2021
  19. Breakthrough Lessons: DESIGN for network effects

    Published: 5/3/2021
  20. Anu Hariharan: How to think about network effects for your startup, from the beginning

    Published: 5/3/2021

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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.