In Depth

How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)

How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)

Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped Serval's AI agents for IT teams | Jake Stauch (Founder and CEO)

In this episode of the "In Depth" podcast, Brett Berson interviews Jake Stauch, co-founder and CEO of Serval, about his journey building an AI-native platform for IT teams. Jake shares insights from his time at Verkada, emphasizing the importance of targeting existing markets with better products and building a full pl...

The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)

Todd Jackson interviews Gorkem Yurtseven, the founder and CTO of fal, a generative media platform. They discuss fal's pivot from data infrastructure to AI image, video, and audio models, driven by the emergence of stable diffusion. Gorkem shares insights on the company's rapid growth, challenges in raising funding, str...

From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s story | Michael Chime (Co-founder & CEO of Prepared)

Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)

In this episode of the podcast, Brett Berson interviews Kiren Sekar, the Chief Product Officer at Samsara, a cloud platform for physical operations. Kiren shares his experiences from Meraki, which he scaled from $5 million to over $500 million before its acquisition by Cisco, and discusses the founding principles of Sa...

Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder and CEO)

From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)

This podcast episode features an interview with Abhinav Asthana, the co-founder and CEO of Postman, a popular API platform. Abhinav discusses his early exposure to computers and programming, influenced by his father's work. He recounts his initial forays into software development, including building a virtual campus to...

How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)

In this episode of the podcast, Brett Berson interviews Cameron Adams, the co-founder of Canva, about the company's early days. Adams recounts his professional background before Canva, including his design agency, his time at Google, and his email startup. He details the initial meeting with Canva's founders, Mel Perki...

Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)

Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn | Immad Akhund (Co-founder and CEO of Mercury)

In this episode, Immad Akhund, CEO and co-founder of Mercury, discusses his experiences as a multiple-time founder and the lessons he's learned over nearly two decades. He emphasizes the importance of adapting general business principles to one's specific situation and personality, rather than blindly copying framework...

Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis

Building a high-growth, sustainable company requires a methodical approach that prioritizes founder-market fit, objective feedback, and operational efficiency. Qasar Younis, CEO of Applied Intuition, emphasizes that founders should identify a co-founder and a high-growth market before settling on a specific idea, ensur...

What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)

Ankur Goyal, CEO of Braintrust and founder of Impura, shares his journey building AI products and the lessons he has learned along the way. Goyal emphasizes the importance of paranoia about software quality, recalling a pivotal moment at MemSQL when a managing director at Goldman Sachs stressed the real-world consequen...

How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem

How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder and CPO)

Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder and CEO)

Building high-quality software requires prioritizing the end-user experience over organizational metrics or rapid headcount expansion. Karri Saarinen, CEO and co-founder of Linear, emphasizes that successful products often emerge from solving specific, tangible frustrations—such as the performance issues and complexity...

How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | Wes Kao (Executive coach, co-founder of Maven)

From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)

How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto)

In this episode of In Depth, Adit Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Reducto, discusses Reducto's journey from a weekend project to a seven-figure ARR company. Adit shares how Reducto initially aimed to build a long-term memory solution for language models but pivoted to document processing after recognizing customer deman...

1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)

In this episode of In Depth, Brett Berson interviews Jeff Shiner, the CEO of 1Password, about his 13-year journey with the company. Jeff recounts joining 1Password in 2012 when it was a small, consumer-focused company and details its evolution into a B2B powerhouse. He shares the company's origin story as a 30-day proj...