Starting Greatness
Hosted by Mike Maples Jr · Floodgate
4.9from 486 ratings
- 117
- Episodes
- 116
- Transcribed
- 486
- Ratings
- 2019
- First episode
About Starting Greatness
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.
- Publisher
- Floodgate
- Category
- business · education · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Nov 2019
- Latest episode
- 21 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
116 of 117 episodes have a transcript.
21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Max Mullen: How Instacart Solved the Problem of Grocery Delivery
Published 21 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And what do you think others can learn from your story? I mean, we learned so much. I could fill a whole podcast of just the answer to this question. But one of the first things that comes to mind and just kind of starting from the beginning is you really have to be passionate about what you're working on. […]
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- Max Mullen
- James Beshara
- Immad Akhund
- John Zimmer
- Spenser Skates
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 379 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 107 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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