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Pattern Breakers — 114 episodes · page 1 of 2
Max Mullen: How Instacart Solved the Problem of Grocery Delivery
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