Airtable’s path to product-market fit — co-founder Andrew Ofstad on building horizontal products
18 Aug 2022
46m
First Round · Business
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
Operations vs. Algorithms: Advice for scaling startups, from Opendoor CTO Ian Wong
11 Aug 2022
1h 6m
Want to go totally asynchronous? Repeat founder Sidharth Kakkar on building a remote team & autonomous culture
21 Jul 2022
1h 5m
Why COO is the most fluid role in the C-Suite — Sara Clemens, former COO of Twitch & Pandora
07 Jul 2022
1h 2m
From PM to VP of Product: Jiaona Zhang’s career advice from Webflow, Airbnb & Dropbox
23 Jun 2022
56m
AI processedThe discussion centers on navigating a product management career through three distinct phases: contributing as a PM, managing PMs, and leading the PM function. Jiaona Zhang (Jay-Z), VP of Product at Webflow, shares insights on breaking into product management, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions o...
“When They Win, You Win”: Russ Laraway unpacks his new guide for the modern manager
26 May 2022
1h 0m
Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product leaders — Nate Stewart of Cockroach Labs
19 May 2022
58m
Building & selling a product into government is tricky — Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins shares critical advice for getting it right
28 Apr 2022
1h 0m
The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas
21 Apr 2022
1h 2m
How to handle comp challenges at every startup stage — Kaitlyn Knopp’s advice from Pequity, Instacart, Cruise & Google
14 Apr 2022
1h 2m
A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice from Figma & Uber
31 Mar 2022
58m
How founders can get executive hiring right from startup to scale — advice from Lattice’s Jack Altman
17 Mar 2022
1h 5m
IC? Manager? Technical Founder? How to chart your engineering career path — Stripe & Cocoon’s Amber Feng
10 Mar 2022
56m
Never done sales before? Meka Asonye shares GTM playbooks from Stripe, Mixpanel, and backing founders at First Round
03 Mar 2022
1h 5m
The startup playbook for expanding internationally — Advice from Faire CEO Max Rhodes
10 Feb 2022
1h 0m
Usage-based? Hybrid? Tiered? Which pricing model is right for you? — Stripe’s Jeanne DeWitt Grosser
27 Jan 2022
49m
The Product Strategy Playbook that Powered Growth at Tinder & TripAdvisor — Ravi Mehta
20 Jan 2022
1h 3m
After building hundreds of startup brands, Arielle Jackson shares 6 early marketing missteps to avoid
13 Jan 2022
1h 25m
Buy or build? Focus on the core product or innovate? Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott's advice for scaling
09 Dec 2021
59m
The biggest lessons from building Hubspot, from co-founder harmony to engineering the culture — Dharmesh Shah
02 Dec 2021
53m
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