In Depth
A podcast by First Round - Thursdays

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140 Episodes
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A deep-dive into product-led growth & self-serve strategies — Notion’s & Dropbox’s Kate Taylor
Published: 4/22/2021 -
Setting up the people function and training for empathy — Lambda School’s Mark Frein
Published: 4/15/2021 -
How Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta Parses Through Mountains of Advice as a First-Time Founder
Published: 4/8/2021 -
Building engineering orgs and new products at Segment, Dropbox & Facebook — Tido Carriero
Published: 4/1/2021 -
Essentials to engaging employees & developing high-quality managers — Qualtrics’ Russ Laraway
Published: 3/18/2021 -
CEO Jeff Lawson Reflects on the Peaks and Valleys of Twilio’s Growth Story
Published: 3/11/2021 -
Treat Operational Debt like Tech Debt — Leah Sutton on Elastic’s Distributed Work Playbook
Published: 3/4/2021 -
“My product is the company” — Kevin Fishner on how startups can build better systems
Published: 2/25/2021 -
Growing a consumer product from scratch to 1 billion users — Google Photos’ David Lieb
Published: 2/18/2021 -
An inside look at the system that will outlast Bezos—Bill Carr & Colin Bryar on lessons from Amazon
Published: 2/9/2021 -
From exec roles to board seats — Anne Raimondi’s leadership lessons for the startup C-Suite
Published: 2/4/2021 -
Plaid & Dropbox’s Jean-Denis Grèze’s playbook for building an engineering culture of ownership
Published: 1/14/2021 -
Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story
Published: 12/22/2020 -
Unpacking all the non-consensus moves in Atlassian’s story — Jay Simons
Published: 12/17/2020 -
Partnerships lessons from Stripe & Notion — Cristina Cordova on creating win-win deals
Published: 12/10/2020 -
Start with the story — Drift’s David Cancel on lessons he’s learned as a 5X founder
Published: 12/3/2020 -
Lessons from a first-time CEO — Steve El-Hage on learning everything the hard way
Published: 11/19/2020 -
Product lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health — Ayo Omojola on going “unreasonably deep”
Published: 11/12/2020 -
Molly Graham’s management lessons from Google, Facebook, Quip & Lambda School
Published: 10/29/2020 -
Preview of In Depth from First Round
Published: 10/15/2020
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