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Floodgate
Starting Greatness
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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4.9 stars from 563 ratings
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“Mike is wonderful, this inspires me to keep pushing!”
Thesquad12886 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/30/24
Advice for nonprofits looking to scale
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“Founding and running a nonprofit gives you the chance to live closely to a societal problem you’re looking to solve until you come up with a solution. And then you want to shout it from the rooftops. You want to share it. You want to scale. But how? There is so much you don’t know. How to hire...”Read full review »
DLL 2 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/16/24
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“It’s like getting a startup MBA. Extremely well done. Extremely insightful.”
NoteMonster via Apple Podcasts ·
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11/07/23
Recent Episodes
In the early days of a startup, finding product-market fit is paramount. Once you have it, failure is almost impossible. Without it, you can do everything else right, and still fail. In this Breakthrough Lesson, Mike Maples, Jr of Floodgate discusses three heuristics for maximizing the odds of...
Published 04/29/24
Published 04/29/24
Michael Seibel didn’t set out to become a legendary startup founder. As a young man, his sights were set on politics, dreaming of a future on the Supreme Court. But his friendship with fellow Yale classmate Justin Kan led to a fortuitous cross-country trip to California that changed everything....
Published 04/29/24
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