Pattern Breakers
Floodgate · Mike Maples
Show overview
Pattern Breakers has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 113 episodes. That works out to roughly 50 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 10 min and 41 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 weeks ago, with 4 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2021, with 33 episodes published. Published by Mike Maples.
From the publisher
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.