Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-07-07
Lenny Rachitsky & Mike Maples, Jr.: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)
Mike Maples, Jr. is a legendary early-stage startup investor and a co-founder and partner at Floodgate. He’s made early bets on transformative companies like Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi, and Applied Intuition and is one of the pioneers of seed-stage investing as a category.
Lenny Rachitsky discussed Pattern Breakers by Peter Ziebelman and others. Mike Maples recommended Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware, Chase, Chance, and Creativity by James H. Austin, The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene, and Resonate by Nancy Duarte, and discussed Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Pattern Breakers
Discussed“you have a book coming out that is exactly this helping people understand how to do this it's called pattern Breakers why so why some startups change the future”
Where to get it
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Discussed“you know like there's a there's a book that I love called uh Jonathan livings and seagull where there's this seagull who wants to fly at infinite speed and all the other seagulls are like look we're just destined to eat crap off the surface of the ocean”
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Recommended“a book called The Five regrets of the dying top five regret of the Dying by bronny where she was a hospice nurse and she would talk to people uh in the the last 90 days of their lives”
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Chase, Chance, and Creativity
Recommended“there's another book that that I really like called uh Chase chance and creativity by a guy named James Austin and I think that it's a good book because it talks about how certain people tend to attract luck more than others”
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The Laws of Human Nature
Recommended“I've always liked all of Kay christensen's books the other one that I kind of liked is uh that I read recently is by Robert Green the laws of human nature”
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Resonate
Recommended“and then Nancy gte's Book resonate would we talked about Nancy earlier I I like that book a lot”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“if you pre-order the book at pattern breakers.com Lenny you will receive a second signed copy of the book for free”
“that reminds me of counterposing from Hamilton Hamilton helmer's seven Powers book 100%”
“so just to give folks a chance to figure out where to buy your book when it's available how to find it what they should know do share yeah so I guess there's two main ways”
“why some startups change the future Mike thank you so much for being here”