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Why great leaders make themselves obsolete | Eric Sager (COO, Plaid)
- ▶ 1:10:11 Eric Sager Like whether it's like, you know, like folks like, like Michael Mankins at Bain or like Francoise at Square or Eyal at Blue Mine, um, and now Zach and others at Square. 2 times in the scene
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 29:49 Imad Akhund it was already Stripe and Square and PayPal and things like that.
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 0:28 Brett Berson In today's interview, we turn the clock back to 2018, when Rick was an engineer at Square and very reluctant to become a founder.
- ▶ 1:13 Rick Song I was working primarily on risk, so Audrey Kim was my product counterpart at that time, so I'd worked closely with her, doing a lot of things around kind of building identity, fraud, risk products, and also generalizing that across, like,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:44 Brett Berson So going back to you and Charles starting this company, you doing it somewhat reluctantly, you decided that given you had so much experience building a bunch of this infrastructure from scratch at, um, Square, you kind of had an edge in…
- ▶ 54:40 Rick Song And that original thought emerged from, it was actually a joke, a bit self-deprecating of one, but I think when I was at Square at that time, I was joking with someone once that, uh, have we ever thought that all of our work at Square is… 2 times in the scene
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- ▶ 0:55 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
- ▶ 0:52 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 0:42 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
- ▶ 29:39 Brett Berson Like, I think one of the reasons why Fidelity and others haven't gone after the marketer, if you think about what did Square do in the early days, it was the identical thing.
Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition
- ▶ 0:38 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- ▶ 0:59 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO That's Led Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 0:42 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- ▶ 0:41 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- ▶ 0:40 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO
- ▶ 0:27 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- ▶ 1:04 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
- ▶ 0:28 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) | Milin Desai (CEO)
- ▶ 0:39 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
- ▶ 0:28 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
- ▶ 0:40 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 0:34 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Lessons from Gusto & Square on Finding Your Product Wedge | Michael Cieri
- ▶ 11:49 Brett Berson At the time you were at square, did you find what toast was doing interesting? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:51 Brett Berson Maybe it was at Square. 2 times in the scene
A customer success masterclass | How to build and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)
- ▶ 0:42 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
A product-market-fit masterclass | Kareem Amin (Clay)
- ▶ 0:40 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 30:05 Kyle Parrish No doubt, our largest customers, and we were fortunate to have some early in the early beta, uh, you know, Google, and Microsoft, and Square, Uber, Airbnb, you know, they were very vocal about Figma, I think early on, and within the, the…
- ▶ 54:32 Kyle Parrish We had people from large companies, Twitter and Square.
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- ▶ 0:36 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 0:35 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)
- ▶ 0:38 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- ▶ 0:39 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
- ▶ 0:59 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Runway)
- ▶ 1:09 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 0:38 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
- ▶ 0:45 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building bursts.
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- ▶ 0:46 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- ▶ 0:29 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
- ▶ 0:52 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
- ▶ 2:53 Brett Berson and then we'll narrow as we go, but interested to get your kind of sort of high level thinking to start around org design and maybe some of the stuff that you figured out in the context of Square that sort of drives the underpinnings in… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:10 Saumil Mehta So for Square, it's, and going back several years, it's omnichannel upmarket growth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Brett Berson You could elaborate a little bit more on what the GM structure is in the context of Square, maybe how the org landed on it and give it a little bit more fidelity. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:14 unnamed speaker Square customers who have employees.
- ▶ 38:55 Saumil Mehta Square first in entirety. 4 times in the scene
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
- ▶ 1:04 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
- ▶ 1:01 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org and tactical management advice | Jack Altman (Lattice)
- ▶ 0:53 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Lessons from Stripe on adding new products | Tara Seshan (Watershed, Stripe)
- ▶ 0:45 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.