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Pattern Breakers Floodgate
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4.9 • 375 Ratings
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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.
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Breakthrough Lessons: Founder-Future Fit
What are the traits of a great founder, or a great founding team? People tend to answer with general traits like tenacity, adaptability, or attention to users. But Founder-Future Fit can play an equally vital role and it varies from startup to startup. In this Breakthrough Lesson, Mike Maples Jr. of Floodgate describes the concept of Founder-Future Fit. He explains how it propelled Justin Kan's success with Justintv and Twitch; and how its absence made his later journey with Atrium much tougher.
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Kyle Vogt: A Problem Solver With A Purpose
Kyle Vogt has always been fascinated with designing robots and machines. From his youngest days, he retrofitted his father's car to drive itself along the highways of his home state of Kansas. Later, he dropped out of MIT and became a wildly successful startup founder, playing a crucial role in the development of Justin.tv and Twitch. With Cruise Automation, he returned to his roots, making robotaxis a reality rather than science fiction. In this episode, Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate speaks with Vogt about his career and the lessons learned from a lifetime of solving problems.
Customer Reviews
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.
Amazing
Mike is wonderful, this inspires me to keep pushing!
Totally extreme
Typical vc advice. Just be different. Works great for founders who look like every generic guy out there.