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Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis)
- ▶ 0:06 Josh Koppelman I'm a partner at FirstRound. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Shachar Hirshberg I also participated in first round's PMF method program, uh, which I highly, highly recommend.
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 47:17 Zack Kanter What you don't appreciate is that it's not about steady or first round or Uber or whoever it is.
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
- ▶ 0:19 Brett Berson Last year, my partner, Bill Trenchert, led first-round seed investment in Serval, before the idea was really crystallized.
- ▶ 33:41 Jake Stauch When we first pitched first round, those slides are basically our roadmap today. 2 times in the scene
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
- ▶ 0:11 Todd Jackson I'm a partner at First Round.
- ▶ 6:59 Todd Jackson The thing I think is really interesting because I first round invested in 20, 22 on the original idea that the product for data scientists.
Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)
- ▶ 0:12 Todd Jackson I'm a partner at First Round.
- ▶ 27:35 Todd Jackson One, one of the customers that I know of, cause they're also a first round company is Clay.
- ▶ 38:18 Parag Agrawal And I want the coalition we have with, we know that Khosla Ventures, with Shardulet Index, with you and Josh working with us from First Round Capital, is, it's kind of interesting, you all come at our company and our vision with slightly…
- ▶ 1:01:12 Parag Agrawal Through some really expensive model and spend like four dollars in GPU to get to some work done at first round versus my retired dad.
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- ▶ 16:34 Qasar Younis But if you ask a partner at, you know, first round, and they're like, this is not a good idea, then that's an issue. 2 times in the scene
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 52:13 Ankur Goyal I think, for example, if you hire a new investor at first round or we hire a new employee, they're doing a really good job.
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 (CEO at Reducto)
- ▶ 52:02 Brett Berson Raising your seed from first round and your A from benchmark.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:56 Adam Guild I love that first round post on this and very much subscribe to that.
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
- ▶ 0:44 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04 Brett Berson You can find a written version of this conversation on the first round review, and we've linked Clay's funding announcement in the show notes.
- ▶ 4:25 Brett Berson Which, funnily enough, was inspired by a lot of the early first-round community building.
- ▶ 23:23 Varun Anand Because as First Run likes to say, in the early days, it's all about getting to base camp.
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10 Brett Berson If you're a reader of the first round review, you might recognize Matt's name from his popular language market fit article, which is a super useful resource for founders starting customer discovery that we'll drop in the show notes.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:42 Bob Moore And I raised a three and a half million dollar seed round from you guys, uh, and had that initial, that initial set of conversations with first round, uh, who co-led the round with Uncork.
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 3 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:00 Todd Jackson I'm Todd Jackson, and I'm a partner at First Round.
- ▶ 42:46 Eilon Reshef So, but you know, being in this forum, probably worth mentioning first round is one of the, uh, blog posts I am actually subscribed to, not just read.
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. 3 times in the scene
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07 Todd Jackson I'm Todd Jackson, and I'm a partner at First Round.
- ▶ 12:44 May Habib Who have we talked to in the last two years at first round that is, you know, founder covering this type of space, et cetera.
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07 Todd Jackson I'm Todd Jackson, and I'm a partner at First Round.
Lessons from Gusto & Square on Finding Your Product Wedge | Michael Cieri
- ▶ 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.
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. 2 times in the scene
The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
- ▶ 0:44 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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08 Todd Jackson I'm a partner at First Round.
- ▶ 52:23 Kareem Amin Um, so I, I really like this one and it is, it was kind of earlier on when we started our, uh, growth and, uh, I was on a first round retreat actually, and I talked to another founder and he was asking me kind of like, what have, what are…
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:10 Neha Narkhede Big fan of first round.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:27 Jack Krawczyk No, I want to give you the thought, like, I have admired, I've watched you in your first, like, week of living in San Francisco, being, uh, at First Round Capital, and the conviction that you've had for your entire journey here, the First…
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 Todd Jackson I'm Todd Jackson, and I'm a partner at First Round.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04 Todd Jackson I'm Todd Jackson, and I'm a partner here at First Round. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:13 Colin Zima I believe it actually came through the first round network via the CTO of Hotel Tonight.
- ▶ 16:22 unnamed speaker Um, we use a software called Rillet, which, you know, we found through first round
- ▶ 48:44 Brett Berson Is I think in, in the history of first round across 450 businesses, it's the only company that didn't miss a number all the way through sort of massive exit or sort of somewhat directionally, that's the case.
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
- ▶ 1:03 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. 2 times in the scene
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
- ▶ 0:30 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:37 Todd Jackson You know, one of my partners at first round, Josh Koppelman, uh, founder of first round, you know, it says it's the founder's job to balance transparency and hope. 2 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 0:55 Todd Jackson I'm Todd Jackson, and I'm a partner here at First Round.
- ▶ 2:35 Todd Jackson You've raised over thirty three million dollars, I believe at this point from great folks, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Sam Altman, and of course us here at First Round.
- ▶ 34:35 Dan Siroker You know, I, I certainly think, uh, Rahul's, uh, framework that he shared on the first round review, uh, by surveying your users and understanding what percentage of people
- ▶ 40:43 Dan Siroker Thinking that, you know, like in each VC, and I'm sorry if, if first time did this, uh, has like the landscape, but like, here's what the, the AI landscape is going to look like.
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. 2 times in the scene
An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
- ▶ 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. 2 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53 Brett Berson It's especially meaningful to have him return to the review after hosting him at first round CTO summit way back in 2013, which became the genesis for the first article on the first round review. 2 times in the scene
The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- ▶ 0:47 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. 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Loom on product strategy and organizational leadership | Anique Drumright (COO at Loom)
- ▶ 1:02 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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene