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From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
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.
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 to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
- ▶ 12:21 Casey Winters Obviously, Square is a very large company and it doesn't bring the demand. 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.
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.
Lessons from Gusto & Square on Finding Your Product Wedge | Michael Cieri
- ▶ 0:10 Michael Cieri One of my favorite ones was Square Capital.
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 Michael Cieri I was so excited to start at Square and working with small businesses back in twenty-twelve or so. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:05 Michael Cieri Um, it's square because we did a, but a lot more sort of front of house and helping folks with taking payment and being in front of the customer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 Michael Cieri And as you start to get more advanced and even more complex needs, we had Square for restaurants, Square for retail, and then appointments, uh, which I led, which was,
- ▶ 8:06 Michael Cieri And as you start to get more advanced and even more complex needs, we had Square for restaurants, Square for retail, and then appointments, uh, which I led, which was,
- ▶ 8:06 Michael Cieri And as you start to get more advanced and even more complex needs, we had Square for restaurants, Square for retail, and then appointments, uh, which I led, which was,
- ▶ 11:27 Michael Cieri And as a result, I'm going to go download your square for restaurants product and get started on that.
- ▶ 14:34 Brett Berson When you think about that in the context of Gusto, when you think about it in the context of Square, were those decisions made by product taste and intuition, or, or did you develop like a structured way to decide on those types of things? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:29 Brett Berson How did you approach in both sort of in the context of Square and what you've seen at Gusto? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Michael Cieri Gusto, and I'm sure Square probably feels the same, was that there's just no shortage of
- ▶ 25:06 Michael Cieri Square, a lot of it was kind of focused on what does the next year look like? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 Michael Cieri So one of the products I led at Square was Square Invoices and Square Invoices grew to be our second biggest, I'm not sure where it is, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 Michael Cieri So one of the products I led at Square was Square Invoices and Square Invoices grew to be our second biggest, I'm not sure where it is, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:32 Michael Cieri Or product three is that, you know, at Square, when we did this, it was pretty easy, and we had the tooling that allowed us to be like, we're not sure about this.
- ▶ 53:25 Michael Cieri We have work to do on this at Gusto and certainly had work to do on this at Square, but in some cases, I think it might even just be good to ask that exact question.
- ▶ 55:34 Michael Cieri I think the two people that have had the most impact on me are Gokul Rajaram and Alyssa Henry, both at Square. 7 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.
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.
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.
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. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:47 Saumil Mehta That's helpful because Square is building this ecosystem of interconnected products and services underpinned by a common platform.
- ▶ 23:12 Saumil Mehta So it's this, it's this classical balance between how do you be product first as much as possible or P and L first as much as possible while also having your kind of square first hat. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:14 unnamed speaker So we have a GM for invoices.
- ▶ 34:48 unnamed speaker We have a GM for square for restaurants, which is our restaurants focused point of sale.
- ▶ 34:54 unnamed speaker We have a GM for square for retail, which is our retail focused point of sale.
- ▶ 34:58 unnamed speaker We have a GM for appointments, which is our beauty and personal care focused point of sale.
- ▶ 36:36 Saumil Mehta Are targeted at Square customers, current and future, who have employees. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:22 Saumil Mehta So Square for restaurants has its own GM because there are restaurants focused point of sale products out there.
- ▶ 38:27 Saumil Mehta Same for retail.
- ▶ 38:28 Saumil Mehta Same for appointments.
- ▶ 39:53 Saumil Mehta In Square for restaurants and Square for retail and Square for appointments, because customers that are buying one of our mobile points of sale are very frequently going to say, by the way, what's my online store going to look like?
- ▶ 39:53 Saumil Mehta In Square for restaurants and Square for retail and Square for appointments, because customers that are buying one of our mobile points of sale are very frequently going to say, by the way, what's my online store going to look like?
- ▶ 39:53 Saumil Mehta In Square for restaurants and Square for retail and Square for appointments, because customers that are buying one of our mobile points of sale are very frequently going to say, by the way, what's my online store going to look like?
- ▶ 43:33 Saumil Mehta I think that old kind of old saw of culture read strategy for breakfast really applies here, where you want to have a culture that rises finding the balance between square first and P&L first at different levels of the organization in… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:12 Saumil Mehta And so as somebody who's been in the company seven and a half years and, you know, takes pride in advocating for the products in my remit and takes pride in pushing forward the P and L's in my remit, I take very seriously my responsibility… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:12 Saumil Mehta Because this is a structure that Alyssa put in place right before I joined, and so that would have been summer of 20 15, and we've iterated it, we've improved it, and we've worked on it, and we're still working on it eight years in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:18 Saumil Mehta Or if you do it that way, would it achieve this company priority that we're all aware of?
- ▶ 1:06:26 Saumil Mehta And in a hyper empowered company with a huge degree of transparency, like square is, if something's going wrong, I will almost always hear about it.
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
- ▶ 1:03:22 Noah Desai Weiss I don't think that's also the right solution, but if you look at Intuit or Square or HubSpot for a very long time, those companies basically never built out an enterprise sales motion.