Episodes 113
Avg. Duration 27m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (380)
Since Nov 2019
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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85%
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About This Podcast

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.

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James Beshara: How a Dangerous Problem Led to a Magical Solution

Apr 27, 2026 45m

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 big fast. Instead, he ended up with a heart condition and a…

Immad Akhund: How Mercury Saved The Day For Startups

Mar 16, 2026 39m

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed over 48 hours in March 2023, it marked the third-largest bank failure in United States history and the largest since the 2008 financial crisis. But the fintech…

John Zimmer: Pink Mustaches, Rideshare Wars, and the Legacy of Lyft

Feb 09, 2026 42m

Lyft co-founder John Zimmer helped spark a movement to revolutionize transportation, but the road was never a smooth one. Zimmer and co-founder Logan Green had to outmaneuver entrenched taxi…

Spenser Skates: How Perseverance Paid Off for Amplitude

Jan 05, 2026 44m

When Amplitude launched in 2012, the analytics market looked crowded, and the company spent more than a year struggling to find any traction. But co-founder and CEO Spenser Skates prioritized truth…

Wade Foster: Why Zapier is Built for the AI Revolution

Nov 18, 2025 42m

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 entrepreneurship. But when he and his friend Bryan Helmig developed an…

Howie Liu: Building Airtable to Feel Magical

Sep 29, 2025 46m

Spreadsheets were originally designed for finance people. But when Howie Liu and his co-founders started Airtable in 2012, they had a deeper insight that a spreadsheet-database hybrid could be used…

Joe Liemandt: The AI-Powered School Rewriting the Future of Education

Sep 09, 2025 42m

Long before he attended Stanford, founded software giant Trilogy, or became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, Joe Liemandt wrote a high school paper about the potential for a futuristic…

Mårten Mickos: Essential Lessons From A Legendary Tech CEO

Aug 25, 2025 41m

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 MySQL to becoming a $1 billion success story that powered…

Eric Schmidt: The Implications of Superintelligence

Aug 04, 2025 40m

Best known as the CEO who helped transform Google from a promising startup into one of the best businesses in human history, Eric Schmidt has recently become one of the most important voices in the…

Pedro Franceschi: Lessons from an Evolving Entrepreneur, from Hacking iPhones to Building Brex

Jun 30, 2025 43m

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 company that would process over a billion in transactions.…

Mitchell Hashimoto: How Solving His Own Problem Sparked HashiCorp

Jun 16, 2025 39m

The most successful founders don't usually chase startup ideas. Instead, they're pulled toward problems they can't ignore. Back in 2009,  Mitchell Hashimoto set out to fix what frustrated him by…

Jake Knapp: The Founder’s Guide to Product-Market Fit

May 05, 2025 41m

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 entrepreneurial world better at solving the product-market…

Amjad Masad: Resolve, Persistence, and the Rise of Replit

Apr 15, 2025 39m

Amjad Masad's journey is defined by relentless persistence. Born and raised in Jordan, he borrowed computers to teach himself coding, and then earned money building software for local internet cafes.…

Aaron Levie: The Restless Founder Plotting the Future of Cloud Storage and AI

Mar 31, 2025 40m

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 fax. They dropped a prospectus off at Paul Allen’s house in…

Guillermo Rauch: The Product Visionary Fueling Vercel and Millions of Developers

Mar 17, 2025 39m

Guillermo Rauch didn’t find success by accident. He began working on computers as a kid growing up in Argentina and was hooked immediately, eventually falling in love with programming and open source…

Zach Perret: The Survival Story of a Fintech Giant

Feb 25, 2025 38m

Long before Plaid became a $13.4 billion fintech juggernaut, it was just another struggling startup. Co-founders Zach Perret and William Hockey burned through cash and pivoted from one failed idea to…

Baiju Bhatt: First Robinhood, Next …. Outer Space?

Jan 28, 2025 40m

As the co-founder of Robinhood, Baiju Bhatt didn't just help launch a company. He sparked a movement that fundamentally shifted the dynamics of investing, and created a new path for everyday people…

Josh Reeves: How Gusto Took The Pain Out Of Payroll

Dec 16, 2024 38m

When Josh Reeves, Tomer London and Edward Kim founded Gusto in 2012, roughly 40 percent of the employers in the United States were still doing their payroll by hand. Thousands of small business…

Breakthrough Lesson: RIP To Old-School Marketing

Oct 07, 2024 10m

Most startups stick to traditional methods of getting their message out. Pattern Breakers, however, don't follow the old rules of marketing. Instead they ignite a movement where they ultimately rise…

Niels Hoven: Teaching Two Year-Olds to Read Like Second Graders

Sep 23, 2024 34m

The team behind the educational technology company Mentava is a small one, but its product idea is extremely ambitious: An app that teaches two year-olds to read at a second grade level. The idea is…

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