First Round Capital
also referred to as: first round
includes First Round Review
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2023 by Todd Jackson · said 142 times in 55 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Brett Berson (102), Todd Jackson (15), Rick Song (2), Qasar Younis (2), Parag Agrawal (2), Josh Koppelman (2), Jake Stauch (2), Dan Siroker (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2025 31 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
- Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)
- Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
- Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
- Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
- What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 54 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
- A product-market-fit masterclass | Kareem Amin (Clay)
- How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) | Milin Desai (CEO)
- A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
- Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 54 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
- How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
- Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)
- The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Runway)
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about First Round Capital, oldest first
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Stauch: Serval's product roadmap has remained unchanged since seed pitch
“Our roadmap hasn't really changed in a year and a half. When we first pitched first round, those slides are basically our roadmap today. You know, priorities shifted, but The same core things that we're trying to build are true then as they were true now.”