All Episodes

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

Immad Akhund: How Mercury Saved The Day For Startups

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

Spenser Skates: How Perseverance Paid Off for Amplitude

Wade Foster: Why Zapier is Built for the AI Revolution

Howie Liu: Building Airtable to Feel Magical

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

Mårten Mickos: Essential Lessons From A Legendary Tech CEO

Eric Schmidt: The Implications of Superintelligence

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

Mitchell Hashimoto: How Solving His Own Problem Sparked HashiCorp

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

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

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

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

Zach Perret: The Survival Story of a Fintech Giant

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

Josh Reeves: How Gusto Took The Pain Out Of Payroll

Breakthrough Lesson: RIP To Old-School Marketing

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

Daphne Koller: Changing Lives With Coursera

Pattern Breakers: Which Startups Change the Future?

A Sneak Peek at Pattern Breakers

Maddie Hall: A Different Path to the Future

Breakthrough Lessons: Founder-Future Fit

Justin Kan: Pattern Breaker Personified

Breakthrough Lessons: The Value of a Superbuilder

Kyle Vogt: A Problem Solver With A Purpose

Breakthrough Lessons: Learning to Savor Surprises

Emmett Shear: How Twitch Changed Media by Merging it with Gaming

Breakthrough Lessons: The One Thing That Matters Most…

Michael Seibel: “The Godfounder” Discusses Justin.tv, Twitch, and Y Combinator

Welcome to Pattern Breakers

Breakthrough Lessons: Nail Your Niche

Daniel Ek: How Spotify Revolutionized The Music Business

Breakthrough Lessons: Crisis Reveals Greatness

Untold lessons from the SVB bank run

Breakthrough Lessons: Refuse Mediocrity

Blake Scholl: How Boom Supersonic Took Flight

Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 2)

Breakthrough Lessons: Leslie’s Compass

Breakthrough Lessons: The Sales Learning Curve

Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1)

Breakthrough Lessons: The Infinite Game

Tobi Lutke: A Startup Founder Arming The Rebels Against Amazon

Tim Westergren: How The Band Kept Playing At Pandora

Breakthrough Lessons: The Artistry of Startup Breakthroughs

Breakthrough Lessons: “BIG D" Design

Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig of Applied Intuition: A Startup Designed to Win

Breakthrough Lessons: How to Defeat "We're F*cked, It's Over" (WFIO) Moments

Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible

Breakthrough Lessons: The future is DESIGNED, not predicted

Stephane Bancel of Moderna: $5B and 10 years on the path to changing humanity

Breakthrough Lessons: Apply Game Design to Business Software

Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using

Breakthrough Lessons: The Myth of TAM

Julia Hartz: From Zero to One to IPO and Beyond

Breakthrough Lessons: Price Before You Build

Pricing Guru Madhavan Ramanujam: How Smart Startups Design Their Products Around the Price

Breakthrough Lessons: Find your wave before your market

Jerry Yang: How Yahoo went from a hobby to the early King of the Internet

Breakthrough Lessons: Hire like your life depends on it

Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare: How to build a better Company as well as a better Internet

Breakthrough Lessons: Why you must master risk-taking to seize greatness

Vinod Khosla: Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed

Breakthrough Lessons: Design your category

Christopher Lochhead: Why Legendary Startups create Categories

Breakthrough Lessons: DESIGN for network effects

Anu Hariharan: How to think about network effects for your startup, from the beginning

Breakthrough Lessons: Start a Movement; not just a business

David Sacks: Legendary Startup Product Expert

Breakthrough Lessons: Be a Learn-it-All; not a Know-it-All

Matt Mullenweg: How a modest empire builder powered a huge chunk of the web

Breakthrough Lessons: ALWAYS know your competitive edge

Mark Cuban: You only have to be right once...if you take big enough swings along the way

Breakthrough Lessons: Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke: Decision-making Secrets from a World Series of Poker Champion

Breakthrough Lessons: Get REAL

How Tim Ferriss found product-market fit for “The Four Hour Workweek”

Welcome to Season 2!

Breakthrough Lessons: You are Yoda, not Luke

Nancy Duarte: Why storytelling is vital to entrepreneurship

Breakthrough Lessons: Why the world needs breakthrough builders; How it can be you

Mike Maples and Shane Parrish: How to create a Breakthrough

Breakthrough Lessons: Don't Just Be Resilient: How to be Anti-Fragile

Manny Medina: From Hell and Back to the Threshold of Greatness

Breakthrough Lessons: You have to take the Initiative

Steve Blank: How to turn the tables on COVID-19

Breakthrough Lessons: Don't Mess with Metcalfe's Law

Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.

Breakthrough Lessons: Distribution, Distribution, Distribution

Reid Hoffman: The Network Philosopher King

Breakthrough Lessons: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big

Why Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm is a must-read for Ambitious Startup Founders

Breakthrough Lessons: Why Finding Undiscovered Talent is the Winning Mindset

Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey

Breakthrough Lessons: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait

How Todd McKinnon of Okta believed (even when he sometimes didn't) in the inevitability of breakout success.

Breakthrough Lessons: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product

How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't

Breakthrough Lessons: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster

Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba

Breakthrough Lessons: Find your inner MacGyver

Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”

Breakthrough Lessons: Living in the Future

Marc Andreessen: “Was Netscape an Overnight Success?”

Breakthrough Lessons: Real Artists Get Out of the Building

Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry

Breakthrough Lessons: Hack Value Before Hacking Growth

Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"

Breakthrough Lessons: You Need a Breakthrough Insight

Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit”

Why Greatness is a Decision