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)
Building an operationally-intensive business and avoiding upside down unit econo...
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Don’t have a UX research team? Jane Davis’ tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox to g...
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Getting startup employees to stick around & learning from couples therapy — Flat...
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Jul 29, 202157:36pending
How to find product/market fit before you start building — UserLeap’s Ryan Glasg...
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Nick Caldwell on the engineering cultures that power Microsoft, Reddit, Looker &...
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“Everyone wants a silver bullet” — Selling lessons from Sam Taylor, of Dropbox,...
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Jul 8, 20211:01:48pending
The do’s and don’ts of scaling from dozens of employees to thousands — McKenna Q...
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A look at one repeat founder’s frameworks for validating ideas — Pilot’s Waseem...
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Jun 17, 20211:06:54pending
Killing stories and creating categories — Comms tips from Shannon Brayton’s 25+...
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Jun 10, 202159:02pending
People leaders aren’t the CEO of culture, they’re product managers — Credit Karm...
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Jun 3, 20211:08:16pending
Go unreasonably deep on complex problems and build with naivety — Bowery Farming...
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May 26, 20211:07:58pending
The story behind Slack’s marketing and the leap from marketer to CEO — Abstract’...
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May 20, 20211:02:36pending
Ask why it won’t work — Rick Song’s lessons from Square and building from 0 to 1
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May 13, 202157:37pending
Product Pitfalls From 0 Customers to the Messy Middle and IPO — Eric Berg on Okt...
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May 6, 20211:02:03pending
After leading product & growth teams at Instacart, Wealthfront & LinkedIn, Ellio...
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A deep-dive into product-led growth & self-serve strategies — Notion’s & Dropbox...
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Setting up the people function and training for empathy — Lambda School’s Mark F...
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How Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta Parses Through Mountains of Advice as a First...
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Building engineering orgs and new products at Segment, Dropbox & Facebook — Tido...
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Apr 1, 202158:04pending
Essentials to engaging employees & developing high-quality managers — Qualtrics’...
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Mar 18, 20211:11:32pending
CEO Jeff Lawson Reflects on the Peaks and Valleys of Twilio’s Growth Story
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Mar 11, 20211:04:28pending
Treat Operational Debt like Tech Debt — Leah Sutton on Elastic’s Distributed Wor...
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Mar 4, 202157:27pending
“My product is the company” — Kevin Fishner on how startups can build better sys...
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Feb 25, 20211:13:31pending
Growing a consumer product from scratch to 1 billion users — Google Photos’ Davi...
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Feb 18, 20211:09:30pending
An inside look at the system that will outlast Bezos—Bill Carr & Colin Bryar on...
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Feb 9, 20211:11:45pending
From exec roles to board seats — Anne Raimondi’s leadership lessons for the star...
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Feb 4, 20211:18:07pending
Plaid & Dropbox’s Jean-Denis Grèze’s playbook for building an engineering cultur...
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Jan 14, 202156:51pending
Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical succe...
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Dec 22, 20201:03:26pending
Unpacking all the non-consensus moves in Atlassian’s story — Jay Simons
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Dec 17, 20201:16:47pending
Partnerships lessons from Stripe & Notion — Cristina Cordova on creating win-win...
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Dec 10, 20201:19:47pending
Start with the story — Drift’s David Cancel on lessons he’s learned as a 5X foun...
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Lessons from a first-time CEO — Steve El-Hage on learning everything the hard wa...
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Nov 19, 20201:32:11pending
Product lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health — Ayo Omojola on going “unreasonab...
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Nov 12, 20201:11:51pending
Molly Graham’s management lessons from Google, Facebook, Quip & Lambda School
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Oct 29, 20201:16:28pending
Preview of In Depth from First Round
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