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)
From a narrow ICP to a wide-open market – Lessons from Webflow’s Bryant Chou on...
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How to lead with transparency amidst adversity — Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit and f...
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From kickoffs to retros and Slack channels — Stripe's documentation best practic...
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Why comms deserves its own spot on the exec team — Aaron Zamost’s lessons from S...
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What founders need to know about acquisitions: Shopify’s Daniel Debow on M&A les...
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How to build your culture like a product — Lessons from Anna Binder, Asana’s Hea...
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How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 1...
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Founders: Here’s how to get your sales pitch in ship-shape — Peter Kazanjy
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Deepak Rao on how X1 pivoted, launched, built a +600K-long waitlist and fundrais...
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How to lower barriers to change when building and selling products — Jonah Berge...
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How Retool reached $2M in ARR before launch by focusing on developers — David Hs...
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How to approach GTM with an engineering lens — Rich Rao’s advice from Google & M...
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Nov 3, 202259:25pending
What startups can learn from enterprise corporate messaging — Sara Varni’s lesso...
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Finding product-market fit twice — Alma’s Harry Ritter on pivots and staying clo...
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Oct 13, 202249:08pending
Why everything we’ve been taught about quitting is wrong — Annie Duke
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How to scale your co-founder relationship alongside your startup — Manu Sharma &...
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A crash course on founder-led customer success — Sydney Strader’s lessons from C...
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The founder’s guide to making your first few hires — Steven Bartel on recruiting...
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From product roadmapping to sprint planning: How to ship software at scale — Sni...
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The 5 phases of Figma’s community-led growth — Claire Butler
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Airtable’s path to product-market fit — co-founder Andrew Ofstad on building hor...
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Operations vs. Algorithms: Advice for scaling startups, from Opendoor CTO Ian Wo...
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Aug 11, 20221:06:37pending
Want to go totally asynchronous? Repeat founder Sidharth Kakkar on building a re...
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Why COO is the most fluid role in the C-Suite — Sara Clemens, former COO of Twit...
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From PM to VP of Product: Jiaona Zhang’s career advice from Webflow, Airbnb & Dr...
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Jun 23, 202256:56pending
“When They Win, You Win”: Russ Laraway unpacks his new guide for the modern mana...
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Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product lea...
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Building & selling a product into government is tricky — Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins s...
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Apr 28, 20221:00:14pending
The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating...
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How to handle comp challenges at every startup stage — Kaitlyn Knopp’s advice fr...
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A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice fro...
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Mar 31, 202258:12pending
How founders can get executive hiring right from startup to scale — advice from...
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Mar 17, 20221:05:18pending
IC? Manager? Technical Founder? How to chart your engineering career path — Stri...
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Mar 10, 202256:53pending
Never done sales before? Meka Asonye shares GTM playbooks from Stripe, Mixpanel,...
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Mar 3, 20221:05:57pending
The startup playbook for expanding internationally — Advice from Faire CEO Max R...
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Usage-based? Hybrid? Tiered? Which pricing model is right for you? — Stripe’s Je...
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Jan 27, 202249:56pending
The Product Strategy Playbook that Powered Growth at Tinder & TripAdvisor — Ravi...
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After building hundreds of startup brands, Arielle Jackson shares 6 early market...
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Buy or build? Focus on the core product or innovate? Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermot...
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The biggest lessons from building Hubspot, from co-founder harmony to engineerin...
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The story of why Canva worked: Zach Kitschke shares his lessons from early hire...
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Take your design org from good to great with these principles from Segment to Tw...
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Nov 11, 20211:04:04pending
Instacart co-founder Max Mullen gets tactical on crafting company values and int...
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Growing from founder to CEO: Executive coach Alisa Cohn on how to get better fee...
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Executive hiring is incredibly difficult to get right — Robinhood COO Gretchen H...
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Building a hybrid go-to-market motion — GC Lionetti’s lessons from Confluent, Dr...
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Creating physical products and getting feedback from toddlers — KiwiCo’s Sandra...
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How to hire the right marketer at the right time for your startup — Mux & Segmen...
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From developer to CMO — Archana Agrawal’s marketing lessons from Airtable & Atla...
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Sep 9, 202156:19pending
How to pivot your way to product/market fit & other 0-1 lessons — Rupa Health CE...
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