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In Depth

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 best advice is found. We hope you’ll join us. Subscribe to “In Depth” now and learn more at firstround.com

Episodes

Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Apple, Amazon, Buddybuild, Microsoft)

21 Mar 2024

58m

Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)

29 Feb 2024

40m

The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)

15 Feb 2024

53m

Lessons from Gusto & Square on finding your product wedge | Michael Cieri

08 Feb 2024

59m

A customer success masterclass | How to design, build, and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)

01 Feb 2024

1h 11m

The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)

25 Jan 2024

1h 4m

Clay’s path to product-market-fit: Building vertical, creating power users, and understanding founder psychology | Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO)

18 Jan 2024

54m

Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)

11 Jan 2024

1h 7m

The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana, Dropbox)

04 Jan 2024

1h 5m

Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Building lean, starting young, and studying customers | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)

21 Dec 2023

1h 9m

Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)

07 Dec 2023

1h 14m

The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI ethically | Jack Krawczyk (Google)

30 Nov 2023

1h 23m

A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, Uber, and Calm | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

16 Nov 2023

1h 18m

How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Co-Founder & CTO at Runway)

09 Nov 2023

59m

How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)

02 Nov 2023

1h 7m

AI processed

This podcast episode explores the journey of Guillermo Rauch and his company Vercel, highlighting the principles and tactics that led to their extreme product market fit. It covers topics such as the power of simplicity, the development of Next.js as a React-based tool, the balancing of developer experience and user ex...

The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)

26 Oct 2023

1h 14m

How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)

12 Oct 2023

1h 14m

Building Zapier from first principles | Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO)

05 Oct 2023

1h 7m

How young outsiders changed the shipping industry by finding product-market fit again and again | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)

28 Sep 2023

1h 0m

AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)

14 Sep 2023

1h 6m

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