The 9 Best Starting Greatness Podcast Episodes
1) Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit”
The Co-founder of Benchmark Capital & Wealthfront explains the most important goal of a startup: how do you find product-market fit? As the man who coined the term, he’s the expert—and in this episode...Show More
2) Why Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm is a must-read for Ambitious Startup Founders
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moores is the most influential book on technology go-to-market ever written, and for good reason. In this episode, Mike Maples Jr from Floodgate talks to Geoffrey Moore ...Show More
3) Sarah Leary of Nextdoor: “The Moment You Know You've Created Something Valuable"
Nextdoor today is worth more than $2 Billion and is used by 250,000 neighborhoods throughout the world. Silicon Valley types had doubts about their approach, but Sarah offers valuable ideas for findin...Show More
4) Steve Blank: Great Entrepreneurship is Artistry
Steve Blank’s Customer Development methodology is one of the critical teachings of entrepreneurship over the last twenty years This episode explains why great founders are more like artists than norma...Show More
5) How Instagram Delighted 1 Billion Users....but Almost Didn't
Find out how Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger trusted their instincts and overcame rookie mistakes on the way to building Instagram, which now gets close to 100 Million photos uploaded a DAY.
6) Lessons of Greatness: How to Get Customers to Hire Your Product
What job should a desperate customer hire YOUR product to do? Answering this question is key to unlocking a key lesson of greatness. Here we discuss how the Instagram founders illustrate this lesson p...Show More
7) Osman Rashid: “How did Chegg find a way through?”
Osman Rashid, co-founder and original CEO of Chegg, talks about how Chegg’s startup team of misfit rebels navigated through a crazy sequence of near-death experiences…one day at a time…and lived to te...Show More
8) Lessons of Greatness: Real Artists Get Out of the Building
“Getting out of the building” means something deeper than many realize. Mike Maples Jr explores why in this key lesson of greatness.
9) Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: How to create business products people *enjoy* using
Rahul Vohra of Superhuman has adopted some of the most cutting-edge approaches to making a business product people *want* to use, rather than have to use. In this episode, Mike Maples, Jr of FLOODGATE...Show More
10) Mårten Mickos: Essential Lessons From A Legendary Tech CEO
Mårten Mickos isn't the kind of CEO who tries to dream up world-changing ideas or invent brand new markets. Perhaps best known for leading MySQL to becoming a $1 billion success story that powered Fac...Show More