In Depth

140 Episodes

1. Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings — Noah Desai Weiss

   Published: 7/13/2023
2. Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org, developing yourself, and tactical management advice | Jack Altman (Lattice)

   Published: 7/6/2023
3. Lessons from Stripe on adding new products - Assessing ideas, structuring teams, and tactics for product reviews | Tara Seshan (Watershed, Stripe)

   Published: 6/22/2023
4. How to design a high-impact growth org for a PLG startup — Webflow & Dropbox’s Melissa Tan

   Published: 6/8/2023
5. Why is the transition from IC Engineer to Manager so tricky (and how to get it right)? — Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma

   Published: 5/25/2023
6. How to pull off the ‘zoom-in pivot,’ and other lessons in early-stage building with Luminai’s Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran

   Published: 5/18/2023
7. The go-to-market guide for open-source companies — Douglas Hanna, COO Grafana Labs

   Published: 5/11/2023
8. What this 3-time founding team did differently to find product-market fit faster — Jessica McKellar, CTO of Pilot

   Published: 5/4/2023
9. How to measure product-market fit with the REV model — Artem Kroupenev

   Published: 4/27/2023
10. The early user research playbook for founders — Jeanette Mellinger’s expert advice for validating your idea with high-quality interviews

    Published: 4/20/2023
11. Claire Hughes Johnson on being a “learning organism” during Stripe’s growth, and more scaling advice for leaders

    Published: 4/13/2023
12. Notion’s Head of Marketing on building a growth marketing engine at a PLG company — Rachel Hepworth

    Published: 4/6/2023
13. What makes someone a truly remarkable talent evaluator — Nadia Singer, Figma’s Chief People Officer

    Published: 3/30/2023
14. How Vanta’s founder bet big on startup security and found product-market fit — Christina Cacioppo

    Published: 3/23/2023
15. Lessons from Notion on building a thriving decentralized community — Ben Lang

    Published: 3/16/2023
16. From a narrow ICP to a wide-open market – Lessons from Webflow’s Bryant Chou on using customer empathy to get product-market fit

    Published: 3/9/2023
17. How to lead with transparency amidst adversity — Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit and former Google, Facebook & Pinterest exec

    Published: 2/23/2023
18. From kickoffs to retros and Slack channels — Stripe's documentation best practices with Brie Wolfson

    Published: 2/9/2023
19. Why comms deserves its own spot on the exec team — Aaron Zamost’s lessons from Square

    Published: 2/2/2023
20. What founders need to know about acquisitions: Shopify’s Daniel Debow on M&A lessons from selling three startups

    Published: 1/26/2023