In Depth
A podcast by First Round - Thursdays

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140 Episodes
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How to build your culture like a product — Lessons from Anna Binder, Asana’s Head of People
Published: 1/20/2023 -
How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 10 years at Greenhouse
Published: 1/12/2023 -
Founders: Here’s how to get your sales pitch in ship-shape — Peter Kazanjy
Published: 12/15/2022 -
Deepak Rao on how X1 pivoted, launched, built a +600K-long waitlist and fundraised in tough times
Published: 12/8/2022 -
How to lower barriers to change when building and selling products — Jonah Berger’s advice for founders
Published: 12/1/2022 -
How Retool reached $2M in ARR before launch by focusing on developers — David Hsu
Published: 11/10/2022 -
How to approach GTM with an engineering lens — Rich Rao’s advice from Google & Meta
Published: 11/3/2022 -
What startups can learn from enterprise corporate messaging — Sara Varni’s lessons from Salesforce & Twilio
Published: 10/27/2022 -
Finding product-market fit twice — Alma’s Harry Ritter on pivots and staying close to customers
Published: 10/13/2022 -
Why everything we’ve been taught about quitting is wrong — Annie Duke
Published: 10/6/2022 -
How to scale your co-founder relationship alongside your startup — Manu Sharma & Brian Rieger of Labelbox
Published: 9/29/2022 -
A crash course on founder-led customer success — Sydney Strader’s lessons from Catalyst & InVision
Published: 9/22/2022 -
The founder’s guide to making your first few hires — Steven Bartel on recruiting at Gem & Dropbox
Published: 9/15/2022 -
From product roadmapping to sprint planning: How to ship software at scale — Snir Kodesh
Published: 9/8/2022 -
The 5 phases of Figma’s community-led growth — Claire Butler
Published: 9/1/2022 -
Airtable’s path to product-market fit — co-founder Andrew Ofstad on building horizontal products
Published: 8/18/2022 -
Operations vs. Algorithms: Advice for scaling startups, from Opendoor CTO Ian Wong
Published: 8/11/2022 -
Want to go totally asynchronous? Repeat founder Sidharth Kakkar on building a remote team & autonomous culture
Published: 7/21/2022 -
Why COO is the most fluid role in the C-Suite — Sara Clemens, former COO of Twitch & Pandora
Published: 7/7/2022 -
From PM to VP of Product: Jiaona Zhang’s career advice from Webflow, Airbnb & Dropbox
Published: 6/23/2022
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