98 Episodes

  1. Breakthrough Lessons: Start a Movement; not just a business

    Published: 4/19/2021
  2. David Sacks: Legendary Startup Product Expert

    Published: 4/19/2021
  3. Breakthrough Lessons: Be a Learn-it-All; not a Know-it-All

    Published: 4/5/2021
  4. Matt Mullenweg: How a modest empire builder powered a huge chunk of the web

    Published: 4/5/2021
  5. Breakthrough Lessons: ALWAYS know your competitive edge

    Published: 3/22/2021
  6. Mark Cuban: You only have to be right once...if you take big enough swings along the way

    Published: 3/22/2021
  7. Breakthrough Lessons: Thinking in Bets

    Published: 3/8/2021
  8. Annie Duke: Decision-making Secrets from a World Series of Poker Champion

    Published: 3/8/2021
  9. Breakthrough Lessons: Get REAL

    Published: 2/22/2021
  10. How Tim Ferriss found product-market fit for “The Four Hour Workweek”

    Published: 2/22/2021
  11. Welcome to Season 2!

    Published: 2/22/2021
  12. Lessons of Greatness: You are Yoda, not Luke

    Published: 7/27/2020
  13. Nancy Duarte: Why storytelling is vital to entrepreneurship

    Published: 7/27/2020
  14. Lessons of Greatness: Why the world needs breakthrough builders; How it can be you

    Published: 7/6/2020
  15. Mike Maples and Shane Parrish: How to create a Breakthrough

    Published: 7/6/2020
  16. Lessons of Greatness: Don't Just Be Resilient: How to be Anti-Fragile

    Published: 6/10/2020
  17. Manny Medina: From Hell and Back to the Threshold of Greatness

    Published: 6/10/2020
  18. Lessons of Greatness: You have to take the Initiative

    Published: 5/11/2020
  19. Lessons of Greatness: Don't Mess with Metcalfe's Law

    Published: 4/4/2020
  20. Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.

    Published: 4/4/2020

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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.