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Pattern Breakers

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.

Episodes

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

23 Sep 2024

34m

Daphne Koller: Changing Lives With Coursera

05 Aug 2024

43m

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This podcast episode follows Daphne Koller's inspiring journey from academia to entrepreneurship as she co-founded Coursera, highlighting her passion for making education accessible through technology. Koller discusses the challenges Coursera faced initially, including skepticism from universities and the search for a ...

In this episode of the Pattern Breakers podcast, Mike Maples Jr. introduces the concept of "Founder Future Fit," which emphasizes the importance of alignment between a founder's authenticity, skills, and intrinsic motivations with the future they are trying to create. He illustrates this concept through examples like J...