In Depth
A podcast by First Round - Thursdays

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140 Episodes
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“When They Win, You Win”: Russ Laraway unpacks his new guide for the modern manager
Published: 5/26/2022 -
Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product leaders — Nate Stewart of Cockroach Labs
Published: 5/19/2022 -
Building & selling a product into government is tricky — Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins shares critical advice for getting it right
Published: 4/28/2022 -
The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas
Published: 4/21/2022 -
How to handle comp challenges at every startup stage — Kaitlyn Knopp’s advice from Pequity, Instacart, Cruise & Google
Published: 4/14/2022 -
A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice from Figma & Uber
Published: 3/31/2022 -
How founders can get executive hiring right from startup to scale — advice from Lattice’s Jack Altman
Published: 3/17/2022 -
IC? Manager? Technical Founder? How to chart your engineering career path — Stripe & Cocoon’s Amber Feng
Published: 3/10/2022 -
Never done sales before? Meka Asonye shares GTM playbooks from Stripe, Mixpanel, and backing founders at First Round
Published: 3/3/2022 -
The startup playbook for expanding internationally — Advice from Faire CEO Max Rhodes
Published: 2/10/2022 -
Usage-based? Hybrid? Tiered? Which pricing model is right for you? — Stripe’s Jeanne DeWitt Grosser
Published: 1/27/2022 -
The Product Strategy Playbook that Powered Growth at Tinder & TripAdvisor — Ravi Mehta
Published: 1/20/2022 -
After building hundreds of startup brands, Arielle Jackson shares 6 early marketing missteps to avoid
Published: 1/13/2022 -
Buy or build? Focus on the core product or innovate? Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott's advice for scaling
Published: 12/9/2021 -
The biggest lessons from building Hubspot, from co-founder harmony to engineering the culture — Dharmesh Shah
Published: 12/2/2021 -
The story of why Canva worked: Zach Kitschke shares his lessons from early hire to current CMO
Published: 11/18/2021 -
Take your design org from good to great with these principles from Segment to Twilio — Hareem Mannan
Published: 11/11/2021 -
Instacart co-founder Max Mullen gets tactical on crafting company values and intentionally building culture
Published: 11/4/2021 -
Growing from founder to CEO: Executive coach Alisa Cohn on how to get better feedback
Published: 10/28/2021 -
Executive hiring is incredibly difficult to get right — Robinhood COO Gretchen Howard shares her playbook
Published: 10/21/2021
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