Pattern Breakers

BusinessTechEducation
Floodgate
greatness.floodgate.com
Fortnightly podcast. Next episode on Sunday, April 5.
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.
112 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
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