Starting Greatness

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Host Mike Maples Jr from venture capital firm FLOODGATE offers lessons from the startup super performers—BEFORE they were successful—featuring interviews with some of Silicon Valley’s most legendary entrepreneurs and thought leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Nextdoor co-founder Sarah Leary, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger, and more.

Episode Date
Lessons of Greatness: Nail Your Niche
Jun 12, 2023
Daniel Ek: How Spotify Revolutionized The Music Business
Jun 12, 2023
Lessons of Greatness: Crisis Reveals Greatness
Mar 27, 2023
Untold lessons from the SVB bank run
Mar 27, 2023
Lessons of Greatness: Refuse Mediocrity
Dec 15, 2022
Blake Scholl: How Boom Supersonic Took Flight
Dec 15, 2022
Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 2)
Aug 22, 2022
Lessons of Greatness: Leslie’s Compass
Aug 22, 2022
Lessons of Greatness: The Sales Learning Curve
Aug 01, 2022
Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1)
Aug 01, 2022
Lessons of Greatness: The Infinite Game
May 16, 2022
Tobi Lutke: A Startup Founder Arming The Rebels Against Amazon
May 16, 2022
Tim Westergren: How The Band Kept Playing At Pandora
Feb 28, 2022
Lessons of Greatness: The Artistry of Startup Breakthroughs
Feb 28, 2022
Lessons of Greatness: “BIG D" Design
Dec 20, 2021
Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig of Applied Intuition: A Startup Designed to Win
Dec 20, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: How to Defeat "We're F*cked, It's Over" (WFIO) Moments
Nov 15, 2021
Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible
Nov 15, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: The future is DESIGNED, not predicted
Nov 01, 2021
Stephane Bancel of Moderna: $5B and 10 years on the path to changing humanity
Nov 01, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Apply Game Design to Business Software
Sep 21, 2021
Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using
Sep 21, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: The Myth of TAM
Aug 23, 2021
Julia Hartz: From Zero to One to IPO and Beyond
Aug 23, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Price Before You Build
Aug 02, 2021
Pricing Guru Madhavan Ramanujam: How Smart Startups Design Their Products Around the Price
Aug 02, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Find your wave before your market
Jul 19, 2021
Jerry Yang: How Yahoo went from a hobby to the early King of the Internet
Jul 19, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Hire like your life depends on it
Jun 28, 2021
Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare: How to build a better Company as well as a better Internet
Jun 28, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Why you must master risk-taking to seize greatness
Jun 01, 2021
Vinod Khosla: Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed
Jun 01, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Design your category
May 17, 2021
Christopher Lochhead: Why Legendary Startups create Categories
May 17, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: DESIGN for network effects
May 03, 2021
Anu Hariharan: How to think about network effects for your startup, from the beginning
May 03, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Start a Movement; not just a business
Apr 19, 2021
David Sacks: Legendary Startup Product Expert
Apr 19, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Be a Learn-it-All; not a Know-it-All
Apr 05, 2021
Matt Mullenweg: How a modest empire builder powered a huge chunk of the web
Apr 05, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: ALWAYS know your competitive edge
Mar 22, 2021
Mark Cuban: You only have to be right once...if you take big enough swings along the way
Mar 22, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Thinking in Bets
Mar 08, 2021
Annie Duke: Decision-making Secrets from a World Series of Poker Champion
Mar 08, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: Get REAL
Feb 22, 2021
How Tim Ferriss found product-market fit for “The Four Hour Workweek”
Feb 22, 2021
Welcome to Season 2!
Feb 22, 2021
Lessons of Greatness: You are Yoda, not Luke
Jul 27, 2020
Nancy Duarte: Why storytelling is vital to entrepreneurship
Jul 27, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: Why the world needs breakthrough builders; How it can be you
Jul 06, 2020
Mike Maples and Shane Parrish: How to create a Breakthrough
Jul 06, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: Don't Just Be Resilient: How to be Anti-Fragile
Jun 10, 2020
Manny Medina: From Hell and Back to the Threshold of Greatness
Jun 10, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: You have to take the Initiative
May 11, 2020
Steve Blank: How to turn the tables on COVID-19
May 11, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: Don't Mess with Metcalfe's Law
Apr 04, 2020
Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.
Apr 04, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: Distribution, Distribution, Distribution
Mar 02, 2020
Reid Hoffman: The Network Philosopher King
Mar 02, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big
Feb 18, 2020
Why Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm is a must-read for Ambitious Startup Founders
Feb 18, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: Why Finding Undiscovered Talent is the Winning Mindset
Feb 03, 2020
Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey
Feb 03, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait
Jan 21, 2020
How Todd McKinnon of Okta believed (even when he sometimes didn't) in the inevitability of breakout success.
Jan 21, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product
Jan 13, 2020
How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't
Jan 13, 2020
Lessons of Greatness: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster
Dec 30, 2019
Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba
Dec 30, 2019
Lessons of Greatness: Find your inner MacGyver
Dec 23, 2019
Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”
Dec 23, 2019
Lessons of Greatness: Living in the Future
Dec 16, 2019
Marc Andreessen: “Was Netscape an Overnight Success?”
Dec 16, 2019
Lessons of Greatness: Real Artists Get Out of the Building
Dec 09, 2019
Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry
Dec 09, 2019
Lessons of Greatness: Hack Value Before Hacking Growth
Dec 02, 2019
Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"
Dec 02, 2019
Lessons of Greatness: You Need a Breakthrough Insight
Dec 02, 2019
Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit”
Dec 02, 2019
Why Greatness is a Decision
Nov 19, 2019