Mike Maples
Floodgate co-founding partner and Pattern Breakers author
Floodgate co-founding partner and Pattern Breakers author
Every podcast episode featuring Mike Maples that Attunex has found: 10 interviews and appearances across 3 shows between 2025 and 2026. Most often on Pattern Breakers (8). Follow Mike in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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When Max Mullen was a teenager, he used his mother’s credit card to order some candy and soda off the internet from the online company Kozmo.com. Less than an hour later his order arrived, and Mullen…
For most of his 20s, James Beshara tried to go big as a startup founder in a hot category where he burned tons of money in hopes of getting big fast. Instead, he ended up with a heart condition and a…
When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed over 48 hours in March 2023, it marked the third-largest bank failure in United States history and the largest since the 2008 financial crisis. But the fintech…
Lyft co-founder John Zimmer helped spark a movement to revolutionize transportation, but the road was never a smooth one. Zimmer and co-founder Logan Green had to outmaneuver entrenched taxi…
When Amplitude launched in 2012, the analytics market looked crowded, and the company spent more than a year struggling to find any traction. But co-founder and CEO Spenser Skates prioritized truth…
When Wade Foster was a kid growing up in Jefferson City, Missouri, there weren’t many models for how to carve out a career in entrepreneurship. But when he and his friend Bryan Helmig developed an…
Spreadsheets were originally designed for finance people. But when Howie Liu and his co-founders started Airtable in 2012, they had a deeper insight that a spreadsheet-database hybrid could be used…
Long before he attended Stanford, founded software giant Trilogy, or became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, Joe Liemandt wrote a high school paper about the potential for a futuristic…
(00:35) - Cracks Form in Meta's Acquisition of Scale AI (23:40) - Tesla's Master Plan 4 (36:08) - Ken Griffin Builds Next-Gen Financial Powerhouse (01:07:45) - Advanced AI Blows Up Startup Bills…
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Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:50 Gokul Rajaram on Google and what makes a great CEO 14:30 Ishan Mukherjee on the State of LLMs 22:23 Mark Pincus on how to come up with good ideas and build great products…