145 Episodes

  1. 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
  2. How to lead with transparency amidst adversity — Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit and former Google, Facebook & Pinterest exec

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

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

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

    Published: 1/26/2023
  6. How to build your culture like a product — Lessons from Anna Binder, Asana’s Head of People

    Published: 1/20/2023
  7. How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 10 years at Greenhouse

    Published: 1/12/2023
  8. Founders: Here’s how to get your sales pitch in ship-shape — Peter Kazanjy

    Published: 12/15/2022
  9. Deepak Rao on how X1 pivoted, launched, built a +600K-long waitlist and fundraised in tough times

    Published: 12/8/2022
  10. How to lower barriers to change when building and selling products — Jonah Berger’s advice for founders

    Published: 12/1/2022
  11. How Retool reached $2M in ARR before launch by focusing on developers — David Hsu

    Published: 11/10/2022
  12. How to approach GTM with an engineering lens — Rich Rao’s advice from Google & Meta

    Published: 11/3/2022
  13. What startups can learn from enterprise corporate messaging — Sara Varni’s lessons from Salesforce & Twilio

    Published: 10/27/2022
  14. Finding product-market fit twice — Alma’s Harry Ritter on pivots and staying close to customers

    Published: 10/13/2022
  15. Why everything we’ve been taught about quitting is wrong — Annie Duke

    Published: 10/6/2022
  16. How to scale your co-founder relationship alongside your startup — Manu Sharma & Brian Rieger of Labelbox

    Published: 9/29/2022
  17. A crash course on founder-led customer success — Sydney Strader’s lessons from Catalyst & InVision

    Published: 9/22/2022
  18. The founder’s guide to making your first few hires — Steven Bartel on recruiting at Gem & Dropbox

    Published: 9/15/2022
  19. From product roadmapping to sprint planning: How to ship software at scale — Snir Kodesh

    Published: 9/8/2022
  20. The 5 phases of Figma’s community-led growth — Claire Butler

    Published: 9/1/2022

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