In Depth

A podcast by First Round - Thursdays

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140 Episodes

  1. Building a 4 billion dollar data platform: Inside dbt Labs’ unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Co-founder and CEO, ex-RJMetrics, Squarespace)

    Published: 12/19/2024
  2. How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma, ex-Uber, Google, Microsoft)

    Published: 12/5/2024
  3. How to find customers in the Dept of Defense: From prototype to the Pentagon | Steve Blank (Hacking for Defense)

    Published: 11/14/2024
  4. Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO’s Journey Leading in Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta (Rubrik, ex-LiveRamp)

    Published: 10/10/2024
  5. How to find and pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder and CEO at SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)

    Published: 9/26/2024
  6. How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Co-founder and CEO at Crossbeam, ex-RJMetrics and Stitch Data)

    Published: 9/19/2024
  7. Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO

    Published: 9/5/2024
  8. Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI, ex-Stripe, Retool, Dropbox, Google)

    Published: 8/1/2024
  9. Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Deputy CTO at Microsoft, creator of Google Docs)

    Published: 6/6/2024
  10. How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)

    Published: 5/30/2024
  11. Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) | Milin Desai (Sentry, VMware, Riverbed)

    Published: 5/16/2024
  12. How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)

    Published: 4/25/2024
  13. Timeless lessons on running software companies that endure | Alyssa Henry (Square, Amazon, Microsoft)

    Published: 4/18/2024
  14. Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)

    Published: 4/4/2024
  15. A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)

    Published: 3/28/2024
  16. Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Apple, Amazon, Buddybuild, Microsoft)

    Published: 3/21/2024
  17. Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)

    Published: 2/29/2024
  18. The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)

    Published: 2/15/2024
  19. Lessons from Gusto & Square on finding your product wedge | Michael Cieri

    Published: 2/8/2024
  20. A customer success masterclass | How to design, build, and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)

    Published: 2/1/2024

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Welcome to In Depth, a new podcast from First Round Review that’s dedicated to surfacing the tactical advice founders and startup leaders need to grow their teams, their companies and themselves. Hosted by Brett Berson, a partner at First Round, In Depth will cover a lot of ground and a wide range of topics, from hiring executives and becoming a better manager, to the importance of storytelling inside of your organization. But every interview will hit the level of tactical depth where the very best advice is found. We hope you’ll join us. Subscribe to “In Depth” now and learn more at firstround.com