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How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- ▶ 4:23 Jon Noronha It's also what Notion's done really well in its own kind of separate domain.
- ▶ 10:20 Jon Noronha So your notions, your slacks, your looms, it was actually difficult to pin down where their early fit had come from.
- ▶ 18:57 Jon Noronha I'm thinking again about these companies that inspire us, like a Slack or a Notion or a Canva.
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 36:24 Paul Copplestone Superpower because our attrition is extremely low, but the leaning into the async, um, culture has helped because everything's written, everything's recorded, everything's captured in Slack or Notion, or one of our sales meetings is…
Playing it safe with marketing is the riskiest thing you can do | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (Figma CMO)
- ▶ 27:15 Brett Berson It seems like Silicon Valley hasn't done an amazing job of telling an optimistic story of AI in the past few days that I'm sure you were very attuned to, which is Notion had a brand campaign around Think Together.
- ▶ 37:32 Brett Berson And like, again, just an interesting recent reference point was the, this Notion video that they put out. 2 times in the scene
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 5:49 Graham Moreno And what we do internally with Claude and Notion and Atio and like all of these different tools is amazing.
- ▶ 44:17 Graham Moreno Notion has started doing a bunch of stuff that is like not necessarily what was in their initial remit.
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 1:18:54 Zack Kanter And then you're putting it in slab and then you decide, oh, we're going to switch to notion.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 23:44 Abhinav Asthana If you're familiar with something like notion or Google docs, it has an abstraction for just, just a literal doc there, but that's not good enough when you're dealing with technical abstractions like APIs.
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 22:25 Ankur Goyal Companies like Notion,
- ▶ 34:03 Ankur Goyal A lot of people will read a blog post that Simon and I wrote about how notion uses brain trust.
- ▶ 37:13 Ankur Goyal Um, what started to happen really interestingly last summer is that Notion, who was way far ahead of everyone in terms of real adoption of their AI products, and really pushing the boundaries of the latest models, they had, and they also… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:38 Ankur Goyal We think that eventually the way that, you know, the notions and Zapiers of the world are thinking about how to use AI in their core products and the, the humans who are, you know, working on this and the way they think about engineering,…
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
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.
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.
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.
- ▶ 35:58 Varun Anand I think that companies like Notion and Figma have a clearer path to going from self-serve to enterprise because it's seat-based.
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.
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.
- ▶ 1:03:34 Matt Lerner It was basically just a free guide on Notion with everything like an entrepreneur needs to know about what all the terms mean, what do you need to file, negotiating equity, cash flow, everything.
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.
- ▶ 4:00 Bob Moore I guess it would be a notion file these days, but, uh, it was, uh, it was an Evernote file.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- ▶ 26:30 Dennis Pilarinos They have it in Notion and Jira and Google Docs and linear and all the tools, these kind of code adjacent systems.
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.
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.
- ▶ 34:23 Amjad Masad You get Notion and you get Notion AI for 10 bucks or whatever.
- ▶ 34:23 Amjad Masad You get Notion and you get Notion AI for 10 bucks or whatever.
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.
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.
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.
- ▶ 7:46 Todd Jackson And by the way, I think of products like Airtable and Notion as having a little bit of the same path where it could be used by a salesperson, it could be used by an engineer, and they sort of stayed general.
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.
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.
- ▶ 19:17 Oliver Jay Had, you know, maybe launched at a different time or a different way, there would be no notion, potentially.
- ▶ 53:39 Oliver Jay And, like, one can argue if they executed better, there would be, there would be no notion as well, right? 3 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- ▶ 11:17 Dan Siroker We wrote up a whole notion doc with all of the trade-offs and all of the ideas, and, and I actually think all five strategies
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
- ▶ 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.
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.
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.
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.
- ▶ 24:18 Noah Desai Weiss And then I think kind of the next generation of companies like notion air table and so on, you know, these companies are all early on in their life cycle.
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.
- ▶ 21:57 Tara Seshan At the time it was like Notion, Lattice, like a few more who are all doing recurring payments.
- ▶ 26:53 Tara Seshan What really forced my hand is, like, if a Figma or a Notion or any of one of those companies would churn off of our subscriptions tooling, not to something else.