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)
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Co-founder and CEO at C...
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Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-found...
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Sep 5, 20241:15:20pending
Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marke...
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Aug 1, 20241:08:04pending
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Depu...
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How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pintere...
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May 30, 20241:13:29pending
Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) |...
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May 16, 202458:01pending
How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling...
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Apr 25, 20241:15:40pending
Timeless lessons on running software companies that endure | Alyssa Henry (Squar...
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Apr 18, 20241:16:55pending
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, Linked...
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Apr 4, 20241:16:19pending
A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
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Mar 28, 202443:49pending
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocke...
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Mar 21, 202458:50pending
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO o...
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Feb 29, 202440:21pending
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (...
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Feb 15, 202453:46pending
Lessons from Gusto & Square on finding your product wedge | Michael Cieri
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Feb 8, 202459:08pending
A customer success masterclass | How to design, build, and scale a CS org | Step...
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Feb 1, 20241:11:07pending
The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Pala...
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Jan 25, 20241:04:46pending
Clay’s path to product-market-fit: Building vertical, creating power users, and...
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Jan 18, 202454:16pending
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (...
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Jan 11, 20241:07:58pending
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oli...
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Jan 4, 20241:05:18pending
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Building lean, starting young, and studying...
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Dec 21, 20231:09:43pending
Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Conf...
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Dec 7, 20231:14:20pending
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI ethically |...
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Nov 30, 20231:23:47pending
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, Uber, and Calm | Wil...
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Nov 16, 20231:18:54pending
How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidi...
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Nov 9, 202359:16pending
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guil...
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Nov 2, 20231:07:01pending
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (G...
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Oct 26, 20231:14:07pending
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni &...
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Oct 12, 20231:14:18pending
Building Zapier from first principles | Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, fund...
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Oct 5, 20231:07:17pending
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry by finding product-market fit...
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Sep 28, 20231:00:31pending
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind...
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Sep 14, 20231:06:13pending
A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich...
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Sep 7, 20231:16:45pending
An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
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Aug 31, 20231:14:40pending
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
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Aug 17, 20231:13:27pending
The zero to one B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
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Aug 10, 20231:03:49pending
Lessons from Loom on product strategy, organizational leadership, and cross-func...
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Aug 3, 20231:01:30pending
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings...
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Jul 13, 20231:17:34pending
Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org, developing yourself, and tactical manage...
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Jul 6, 20231:18:23pending
Lessons from Stripe on adding new products - Assessing ideas, structuring teams,...
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Jun 22, 202355:37pending
How to design a high-impact growth org for a PLG startup — Webflow & Dropbox’s M...
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Jun 8, 202359:40pending
Why is the transition from IC Engineer to Manager so tricky (and how to get it r...
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May 25, 20231:00:06pending
How to pull off the ‘zoom-in pivot,’ and other lessons in early-stage building w...
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May 18, 202358:37pending
The go-to-market guide for open-source companies — Douglas Hanna, COO Grafana La...
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May 11, 20231:05:14pending
What this 3-time founding team did differently to find product-market fit faster...
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May 4, 202355:43pending
How to measure product-market fit with the REV model — Artem Kroupenev
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Apr 27, 202355:14pending
The early user research playbook for founders — Jeanette Mellinger’s expert advi...
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Apr 20, 20231:11:25pending
Claire Hughes Johnson on being a “learning organism” during Stripe’s growth, and...
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Apr 13, 20231:15:45pending
Notion’s Head of Marketing on building a growth marketing engine at a PLG compan...
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Apr 6, 202353:32pending
What makes someone a truly remarkable talent evaluator — Nadia Singer, Figma’s C...
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Mar 30, 202349:27pending
How Vanta’s founder bet big on startup security and found product-market fit — C...
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Mar 23, 202347:21pending
Lessons from Notion on building a thriving decentralized community — Ben Lang
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Mar 16, 202344:27pending