145 Episodes

  1. Airtable’s path to product-market fit — co-founder Andrew Ofstad on building horizontal products

    Published: 8/18/2022
  2. Operations vs. Algorithms: Advice for scaling startups, from Opendoor CTO Ian Wong

    Published: 8/11/2022
  3. Want to go totally asynchronous? Repeat founder Sidharth Kakkar on building a remote team & autonomous culture

    Published: 7/21/2022
  4. Why COO is the most fluid role in the C-Suite — Sara Clemens, former COO of Twitch & Pandora

    Published: 7/7/2022
  5. From PM to VP of Product: Jiaona Zhang’s career advice from Webflow, Airbnb & Dropbox

    Published: 6/23/2022
  6. “When They Win, You Win”: Russ Laraway unpacks his new guide for the modern manager

    Published: 5/26/2022
  7. Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product leaders — Nate Stewart of Cockroach Labs

    Published: 5/19/2022
  8. Building & selling a product into government is tricky — Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins shares critical advice for getting it right

    Published: 4/28/2022
  9. The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas

    Published: 4/21/2022
  10. How to handle comp challenges at every startup stage — Kaitlyn Knopp’s advice from Pequity, Instacart, Cruise & Google

    Published: 4/14/2022
  11. A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice from Figma & Uber

    Published: 3/31/2022
  12. How founders can get executive hiring right from startup to scale — advice from Lattice’s Jack Altman

    Published: 3/17/2022
  13. IC? Manager? Technical Founder? How to chart your engineering career path — Stripe & Cocoon’s Amber Feng

    Published: 3/10/2022
  14. Never done sales before? Meka Asonye shares GTM playbooks from Stripe, Mixpanel, and backing founders at First Round

    Published: 3/3/2022
  15. The startup playbook for expanding internationally — Advice from Faire CEO Max Rhodes

    Published: 2/10/2022
  16. Usage-based? Hybrid? Tiered? Which pricing model is right for you? — Stripe’s Jeanne DeWitt Grosser

    Published: 1/27/2022
  17. The Product Strategy Playbook that Powered Growth at Tinder & TripAdvisor — Ravi Mehta

    Published: 1/20/2022
  18. After building hundreds of startup brands, Arielle Jackson shares 6 early marketing missteps to avoid

    Published: 1/13/2022
  19. Buy or build? Focus on the core product or innovate? Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott's advice for scaling

    Published: 12/9/2021
  20. The biggest lessons from building Hubspot, from co-founder harmony to engineering the culture — Dharmesh Shah

    Published: 12/2/2021

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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