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Pattern Breakers

Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

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Pattern Breakers

By: Mike Maples Jr, Peter Ziebelman
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Based on extensive research and real-world examples, this book upends accepted wisdom about how to achieve success when launching a startup or creating a new product.

The breakthrough concepts of Pattern Breakers come from the observations of Mike Maples Jr., a seasoned venture capitalist, who noticed something strange. Start-ups like Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft had achieved extraordinary success despite their disregard for “best practices.” In contrast, other startups deemed highly promising often failed, even when they seemed to do everything right.

Seeking answers, Maples and coauthor Peter Ziebelman set out to discover the hidden forces that drive extraordinary start-up success. Pattern-breaking success, they reveal, demands a different mindset and actions to harness developments others miss or that may, at first, seem crazy.

Pattern Breakers is filled with firsthand storytelling about initial interactions with some of the most transformative start-ups of recent times. Maples and Ziebelman challenge us to rethink how to transcend the ordinary and achieve the extraordinary.

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©2024 Mike Maples, Jr and Peter Ziebelman (P)2024 PublicAffairs Business Development & Entrepreneurship Economics Entrepreneurship Forecasting & Strategic Planning Management & Leadership Inspiring
Practical Frameworks • Insightful Stories • Transformative Advice • Unique Perspective • Entrepreneurial Wisdom
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Absolutely mind blowing, I will listen over and over again. And it’s entirely narrated by the authors, so cool! Tks a lot for your work, Mike and Peter. This is Bruno

Totally Awesome Content!

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“We are all fooled by randomness in one way or another.” What may seem randomness, can become insight magic.

From the opening lines, this awesome book takes start-up founder newbies and seasoned explorers through what folklorists call a series of "wonder-tales". It's filled with adventure and discovery of breakthroughs past, present, future and timeless, and is a fabulous journey into formerly uncharted futures, mapping how the outliers got there, exploring the powerful forces that can, and do, change our lives, and drawing out the legends.

“Breakthroughs require pattern breaking. Pattern-breaking founders create something that breaks the mold. Their pattern-breaking ideas boldly challenge us to depart from current habits. Many of us consider these pattern-breaking ideas impossible or unthinkable–at first. Ironically, the experts we respect most are often the least able to see the potential for a break from the past. Often it is the outsider, unburdened by the past, who becomes the pattern-breaking person behind a pattern-breaking idea.

Consider the breakthrough of human flight. …” Take off with Pattern Breakers, Why Some Start-ups Change the Future, by Mike Maples, Jr and Peter Ziebelman. A wonder-tale for the listener, read by both Mike & Peter in this excellent Audible version.

And find Mike on multiple podcasts, every one a great listen with more insights for outliers and future explorations. And join the conversations,

“What’s luck got to do with it?”

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m2jr has had a front row seat for a lot of the biggest startup successes of the last ~15 years, and this book is his attempt to articulate the shared decisions and traits of their early founding teams that led to their success.

One thing which I like is that in contrast with some startup books which tend to put these great founders on a pedestal and wax poetic about their great intrinsic qualities, most of the principles in this book are things that most people can apply if they are willing to put in the blood, sweat and tears.

I would recommend this book to anyone embarking on an entrepreneurial journey or who just wants to better understand how great innovations are made.

Distilled experience and actionable frameworks

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Wish I would have had this book when I built my first company. Now being able to apply and reflect these insights to the new company we’re building is an incredible advantage. I want to get this book for all my network.

Anyone in venture or building a high growth startup should read this

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I’ve read numerous books on startups, and venture capital. This at the meta level describes the fundamentals of how to create a startup that aims to create a fundamental difference. It is utterly fabulous - if you are building a startup read this book. It is that good.

It is funny, humble and full of deep insights.

Utterly fabulous - an easy recommendation

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Hands down the best advice for creating breakthrough innovations and transformative startups. If you’re considering launching a venture. LISTEN TO THIS FIRST!!
My profound appreciation to the authors for this amazing book.

Astonishing Insights

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So much to like about this book: novel, practical frameworks. Entertaining and insightful stories. A personal perspective on luck and success. And in particular, a great way for any reader to understand why a small set of entrepreneurs and companies break out and transform the world for better. Historians will one day look to this book to understand modern entrepreneurship. Highly recommend it.

Equal parts practical and insightful

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Los autores aportan excelentes perspectivas sobre el pensamiento disruptivo (que rompe los patrones establecidos)
Aportan diferentes puntos de vista, permitiendo que los lectores tomen dimensión de lo complejo que es emprender y correrse de la media.

Puede ser muy si querés emprender

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Thanks, Mike and Pete for writing this book. over the years, your frameworks have helped me get better at Minecraft, so I am, indeed, grateful that you all took the time to further reflect on the frameworks, the stories, and all of the warnings you’ve accumulated by the larger retros you’ve done and looking at deals, and what patterns connect to those pattern breakers who are creating the future. I put this in the must read category.

Living in the Future

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Finally, a book on the qualitative “art” of working in VC, not just crunching numbers and reviewing metrics.

EXCELLENT!

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