In Depth
A podcast by First Round - Thursdays

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140 Episodes
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The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
Published: 1/25/2024 -
Clay’s path to product-market-fit: Building vertical, creating power users, and understanding founder psychology | Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO)
Published: 1/18/2024 -
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
Published: 1/11/2024 -
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana, Dropbox)
Published: 1/4/2024 -
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Building lean, starting young, and studying customers | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
Published: 12/21/2023 -
Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)
Published: 12/7/2023 -
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI ethically | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Published: 11/30/2023 -
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, Uber, and Calm | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
Published: 11/16/2023 -
How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Co-Founder & CTO at Runway)
Published: 11/9/2023 -
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)
Published: 11/2/2023 -
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
Published: 10/26/2023 -
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
Published: 10/12/2023 -
Building Zapier from first principles | Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO)
Published: 10/5/2023 -
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry by finding product-market fit again and again | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
Published: 9/28/2023 -
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
Published: 9/14/2023 -
A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Published: 9/7/2023 -
An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
Published: 8/31/2023 -
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
Published: 8/17/2023 -
The zero to one B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Published: 8/10/2023 -
Lessons from Loom on product strategy, organizational leadership, and cross-functional performance | Anique Drumright (COO at Loom)
Published: 8/3/2023
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