In Depth
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Welcome to In Depth, a podcast from The 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 b...
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Episodes (185)
The fastest way to learn is to run two competing bets | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI,...
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What startups get wrong about enterprise | Lindsey Scrase (COO, Checkr)
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How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
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Why Plaid’s COO cold-calls new hires | Eric Sager (COO of Plaid)
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How Supabase became the essential infrastructure for the AI era | Paul Copplesto...
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How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)
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Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM,...
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Why founders should bet on first-time executives | Praveer Melwani (CFO, Figma)
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Why great product leaders should stop obsessing over the roadmap | Diya Jolly (C...
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Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders,...
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Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
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The most politically dangerous role in the C-suite | Katie Burke (COO, Harvey)
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What nobody tells engineers about becoming a CEO | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO...
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The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
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Mar 19, 20261:09:54failed
Building Zipline: From launch disaster to drone-delivery giant | Keller Cliffton...
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Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former...
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Why 90% of CROs will fall behind in the next 2 years | Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta)
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Figma is not the source of truth | Ryan Lucas (VP of Design, Rippling)
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Feb 12, 20261:06:14pending
Executive Function: Building systems that can make decisions without you | Jeann...
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Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
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How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-foun...
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How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Sted...
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Nov 6, 20251:24:09pending
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped Serval's AI agents for IT teams |...
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Oct 23, 20251:23:01pending
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media | Go...
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Oct 22, 202559:18pending
From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s story | Michael Chime (Co-founder...
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Oct 1, 20251:09:07pending
Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CP...
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Sep 11, 20251:08:57pending
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhar...
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Sep 3, 20251:12:29pending
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-...
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Aug 28, 20251:06:20pending
How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams...
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Aug 20, 20251:04:26pending
Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder an...
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Aug 14, 20251:05:35pending
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn | Immad Akhund (Co...
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Aug 6, 20251:01:52pending
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
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What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CE...
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Jul 24, 20251:10:04pending
How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
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How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cr...
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Jun 19, 20251:41:24pending
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarine...
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Jun 10, 20251:33:04pending
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | Wes Ka...
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May 22, 20251:19:34pending
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-fo...
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May 8, 20251:14:59pending
How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-fo...
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Apr 29, 20251:00:02pending
1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff...
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Apr 24, 20251:08:08pending
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Owner’s unconventional journey to...
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Mar 27, 20251:23:29pending
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Head...
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Mar 6, 202559:59pending
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Building from first principles...
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Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfox...
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Inside Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterp...
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Building a 4 billion dollar data platform: Inside dbt Labs’ unconventional path...
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How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO a...
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How to find customers in the Dept of Defense: From prototype to the Pentagon | S...
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Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO’s Journey Leading in Nearly Every...
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Oct 10, 20241:09:53pending
How to find and pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder and CEO at SYS...
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