Pattern Breakers

Floodgate

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.

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Pattern Breakers

Episodes (111)

Mon Feb 9th John Zimmer: Pink Mustaches, Rideshare Wars, and the Legacy of Lyft
Jan 5th Spenser Skates: How Perseverance Paid Off for Amplitude
Nov 18, 2025 Wade Foster: Why Zapier is Built for the AI Revolution

Pattern Breakers

Feb 9, 2026
42 minutes
39 MB

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 monopolies and rewrite the rules of urban mobility on the fly, all while scaling a business model that many experts insisted was a logistical impossibility and battling Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick for market supremacy. In this episode, Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate speaks with Zimmer about a variety of different essential lessons from Lyft’s journey, including his ability to spot anomalies and create a genuine breakthrough. They also discuss the or...

Pattern Breakers

John Zimmer: Pink Mustaches, Rideshare Wars, and the Legacy of Lyft

Floodgate

00:00 -42:09