In Depth

A podcast by First Round - Thursdays

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140 Episodes

  1. A deep-dive into product-led growth & self-serve strategies — Notion’s & Dropbox’s Kate Taylor

    Published: 4/22/2021
  2. Setting up the people function and training for empathy — Lambda School’s Mark Frein

    Published: 4/15/2021
  3. How Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta Parses Through Mountains of Advice as a First-Time Founder

    Published: 4/8/2021
  4. Building engineering orgs and new products at Segment, Dropbox & Facebook — Tido Carriero

    Published: 4/1/2021
  5. Essentials to engaging employees & developing high-quality managers — Qualtrics’ Russ Laraway

    Published: 3/18/2021
  6. CEO Jeff Lawson Reflects on the Peaks and Valleys of Twilio’s Growth Story

    Published: 3/11/2021
  7. Treat Operational Debt like Tech Debt — Leah Sutton on Elastic’s Distributed Work Playbook

    Published: 3/4/2021
  8. “My product is the company” — Kevin Fishner on how startups can build better systems

    Published: 2/25/2021
  9. Growing a consumer product from scratch to 1 billion users — Google Photos’ David Lieb

    Published: 2/18/2021
  10. An inside look at the system that will outlast Bezos—Bill Carr & Colin Bryar on lessons from Amazon

    Published: 2/9/2021
  11. From exec roles to board seats — Anne Raimondi’s leadership lessons for the startup C-Suite

    Published: 2/4/2021
  12. Plaid & Dropbox’s Jean-Denis Grèze’s playbook for building an engineering culture of ownership

    Published: 1/14/2021
  13. Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story

    Published: 12/22/2020
  14. Unpacking all the non-consensus moves in Atlassian’s story — Jay Simons

    Published: 12/17/2020
  15. Partnerships lessons from Stripe & Notion — Cristina Cordova on creating win-win deals

    Published: 12/10/2020
  16. Start with the story — Drift’s David Cancel on lessons he’s learned as a 5X founder

    Published: 12/3/2020
  17. Lessons from a first-time CEO — Steve El-Hage on learning everything the hard way

    Published: 11/19/2020
  18. Product lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health — Ayo Omojola on going “unreasonably deep”

    Published: 11/12/2020
  19. Molly Graham’s management lessons from Google, Facebook, Quip & Lambda School

    Published: 10/29/2020
  20. Preview of In Depth from First Round

    Published: 10/15/2020

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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