Starting Greatness

Floodgate

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.

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• Lessons of Greatness: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big Starting Greatness · 3 notes

Episodes

• Lessons of Greatness: Why You Need to Nail a Niche before Going Big 3 notes · Why Should You Never Skip the Early Adopters
• Lessons of Greatness: Leslie’s Compass notes coming
• Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 2) notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: the Sales Learning Curve notes coming
• Mark Leslie: Silicon Valley Go-to-Market Legend (Part 1) notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: the Infinite Game notes coming
• Tobi Lutke: a Startup Founder Arming the Rebels Against Amazon notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: the Startup Founder Is an Artist - and a Salesman notes coming
• Tim Westergren: How the Band Kept Playing at Pandora notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Finding Success With “BIG D DESIGN” notes coming
• Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig of Applied Intuition: a Startup With Design in Mind notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: How to Defeat "We're F*cked, It's Over" (WFIO) Moments notes coming
• Ben Horowitz: “The IPO From Hell” and Other REAL Lessons from the Startup Crucible notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: The future is DESIGNED, not predicted notes coming
• Stephane Bancel of Moderna: $5B and 10 years on the path to changing humanity notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Apply Game Design to Business Software notes coming
• Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: The Myth of TAM notes coming
• Julia Hartz: From Zero to One to IPO and Beyond notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Price Before You Build notes coming
• Pricing Guru Madhavan Ramanujam: How Smart Startups Design Their Products Around the Price notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Find your wave before your market notes coming
• Jerry Yang: How Yahoo went from a hobby to the early King of the Internet notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Hire like your life depends on it notes coming
• Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare: How to build a better Company as well as a better Internet notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Why you must master risk-taking to seize greatness notes coming
• Vinod Khosla: Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Design your category notes coming
• Christopher Lochhead: Why Legendary Startups create Categories notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: DESIGN for network effects notes coming
• Anu Hariharan: How to think about network effects for your startup, from the beginning notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Start a Movement; not just a business notes coming
• David Sacks: Legendary Startup Product Expert notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Be a Learn-it-All; not a Know-it-All notes coming
• Matt Mullenweg: How a modest empire builder powered a huge chunk of the web notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: ALWAYS know your competitive edge notes coming
• Mark Cuban: You only have to be right once...if you take big enough swings along the way notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Thinking in Bets notes coming
• Annie Duke: Decision-making Secrets from a World Series of Poker Champion notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Get REAL notes coming
• How Tim Ferriss found product-market fit for “The Four Hour Workweek” notes coming
• Welcome to Season 2! notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: You are Yoda, not Luke notes coming
• Nancy Duarte: Why storytelling is vital to entrepreneurship notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Why the world needs breakthrough builders; How it can be you notes coming
• Mike Maples and Shane Parrish: How to create a Breakthrough notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Don't Just Be Resilient: How to be Anti-Fragile notes coming
• Manny Medina: From Hell and Back to the Threshold of Greatness notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: You have to take the Initiative notes coming
• Steve Blank: How to turn the tables on COVID-19 notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Don't Mess with Metcalfe's Law notes coming
• Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath. notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Distribution, Distribution, Distribution notes coming
• Reid Hoffman: the Network Philosopher King notes coming
• Why Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm is a must-read for Ambitious Startup Founders notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Why Finding Undiscovered Talent is the Winning Mindset notes coming
• Keith Rabois: Key lessons from Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jack Dorsey notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Why Great Ideas Won't Wait notes coming
• How Todd McKinnon of Okta believed (even when he sometimes didn't) in the inevitability of breakout success. notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product notes coming
• How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: How You Can Tame the Startup Rollercoaster notes coming
• Kim Polese: Building the Early Web with Java and Marimba notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Find your inner MacGyver notes coming
• Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?” notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Living in the Future notes coming
• Marc Andreessen: “Was Netscape an Overnight Success?” notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Real Artists Get Out of the Building notes coming
• Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: Hack Value Before Hacking Growth notes coming
• Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “the Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable" notes coming
• Lessons of Greatness: You Need a Breakthrough Insight notes coming
• Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit” notes coming
• Why Greatness is a Decision notes coming