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4 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2024 by Mike Maples, Jr. · said 49 times in 39 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (39), Mike Maples, Jr. (6), Camille Hearst (3), Casey Winters (1)
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2025 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna
- The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 18 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- Meta’s head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more | Naomi Gleit
- Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome anxiety | Tristan de Montebello
- Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 25 mentions in 23 episodes 1 per episode
- Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
- Failure
- My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
- Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, TripAdvisor)
- What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Sales Pitch)
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about Twitch, oldest first
Jul 7, 2024 positive
Maples: Floodgate made 85x on Twitch despite forgetting they owned shares
“About 10 years ago, Twitch was acquired by Amazon for nine hundred and seventy million. And we made something like 85 times our money. And normally you'd think that's a really good thing. It was a good thing, but I had forgotten that I was even a shareholder a…”
Jul 7, 2024 negative
Maples: Outlier startups rarely follow standard management frameworks
“And I also noticed that like all the ones that had seemed to do well, didn't necessarily follow the best practices that everybody talked about. I didn't see the Twitter guys doing the business model canvas, for example. And I didn't see the Justin TV team, eve…”
Aug 2, 2026 positive