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Pattern Breakers

Floodgate
Entrepreneurship
Startups
Twitch
Y Combinator
Silicon Valley
Justin Tv
Mentava
Product Market Fit
Education
Marketing
Artificial Intelligence
Niels Hoven
Payroll Management
Small Business
Airtable
Fintech
Cruise Automation
Climate Change
Atrium
Robinhood

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 mav... more

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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 fire sale. So he decided to radically rethink his ... more

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 company Mercury was willing and ready to save the day f... more

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 monopolies and rewrite the rules of urban mobility on the f... more

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 seeking over narratives. He studied the outcomes of ... more

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James Beshara
Founder of Magic Mind and Apt. AI
Magic Mind, Apt. AI
Episode: James Beshara: How a Dangerous Problem Led to a Magical Solution
Immad Akhund
Founder and CEO of Mercury
Mercury
Episode: Immad Akhund: How Mercury Saved The Day For Startups
John Zimmer
Co-founder of Lyft, involved in revolutionizing urban mobility
Lyft
Episode: John Zimmer: Pink Mustaches, Rideshare Wars, and the Legacy of Lyft
Spenser Skates
Founder and CEO of Amplitude
Amplitude
Episode: Spenser Skates: How Perseverance Paid Off for Amplitude
Wade Foster
Founder of Zapier
Zapier
Episode: Wade Foster: Why Zapier is Built for the AI Revolution
Howie Liu
Founder of Airtable
Airtable
Episode: Howie Liu: Building Airtable to Feel Magical
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google and AI expert
Episode: Eric Schmidt: The Implications of Superintelligence
Mitchell Hashimoto
Co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and Console
HashiCorp
Episode: Mitchell Hashimoto: How Solving His Own Problem Sparked HashiCorp
Jake Knapp
Creator of the design sprint, co-founder of Character VC, and author of Click
Episode: Jake Knapp: The Founder’s Guide to Product-Market Fit

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Mike Maples Jr.
Host of Pattern Breakers, venture partner at Floodgate; leads conversations with Silicon Valley's startup elite.

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 732 ratings
  • Awesome

    Transformative advice from the book with stories on the show to reinforce the concepts.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Nathan Tt
    United Statesa year ago
  • What does it mean to live in the future? What is a movement with future impact? So many questions that motivate advanced thinking about what can change our world. Must listen!

    Audible
    5
    Abbystract
    United States2 years ago
  • Advanced thinking

    What does it mean to live in the future? What is a movement with future impact? So many questions that motivate advanced thinking about what can change our world. Must listen!

    Audible
    5
    Abbystract
    United States2 years ago
  • Though provoking.

    I think Pattern Breakers will prove to be habit forming for me. In some ways it provides language and insight to the entrepreneurial experience. I look forward to learning more about the discipline to assess a concept to evaluate if it is actively breaking or writing rules in a way that will change human behavior. I am hopeful the book and podcast will help me better understand the next project I am compelled to start.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Ken Sunden
    United States2 years ago
  • Totally extreme

    Typical vc advice. Just be different. Works great for founders who look like every generic guy out there.

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    nbsfmc
    United States2 years ago

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Occasional criticism about audio quality and overly provocative takes.
Thoughtful, practical startup lessons and real-world storytelling.
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Immad Akhund: How Mercury Saved The Day For Startups
Q: What impact did macro events like COVID-19 have on Mercury's trajectory?
The pandemic initially reduced revenue due to float-based income, but lockdowns drove e-commerce growth and accelerated Mercury's user base, proving product-market fit and enabling a push for future investments.
Immad Akhund: How Mercury Saved The Day For Startups
Q: How did Mercury manage trust and onboarding to convert early sign-ups into long-term customers?
Mercury focused on an exceptionally smooth onboarding flow, built trust through a strong website/app, and included subtle signals like investor mentions to reassure new users that Mercury was credible.
Immad Akhund: How Mercury Saved The Day For Startups
Q: What validated the Mercury concept early on for Immad Akhund?
Immad cites personal experience, market success of neo-banks outside the US, and a belief that fintech VCs would eventually back such models as validation that a bank-for-tech companies approach could work in the US.
John Zimmer: Pink Mustaches, Rideshare Wars, and the Legacy of Lyft
Q: What were the frugal times like in the early days?
They celebrated small wins with IKEA meatballs and maintained a frugal approach, which was ingrained in them and helped as they faced the need to raise significant funds later.
John Zimmer: Pink Mustaches, Rideshare Wars, and the Legacy of Lyft
Q: How did you decide whether the peer-to-peer idea was a good one?
After deciding to pivot from Zimride, they built a prototype in two weeks and tested the idea with friends and family, leading to immediate demand for the product.

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Pattern Breakers showcases interviews with legendary tech founders and startup operators, focusing on how early failures, lean iterations, and customer-centric pivots shaped wildly successful companies. Episodes frequently explore founding stories, fundraising dynamics, and strategic mindset shifts, often featuring guests who built category-defining products. The show is notable for its candid leadership lessons, emphasis on authentic problem-solving, and a clear tilt toward zero-to-one entrepreneurship, making it a strong fit for listeners aiming to learn from the path of high-impact startups and scaleups.

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Recent guests on Pattern Breakers include:

1. James Beshara
2. Immad Akhund
3. John Zimmer
4. Spenser Skates
5. Wade Foster
6. Howie Liu
7. Eric Schmidt
8. Mitchell Hashimoto

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