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Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- ▶ 56:10 Christopher Payne Like, so Uber entered the, this was back in 2017 or whatever, entered the restaurant delivery space. 2 times in the scene
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 33:58 Zack Kanter When you look at Uber and you're, you're working on, you know, doing something on the Uber app, the vast majority of what's happening is not visible to you behind the scenes.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:20:40 Zack Kanter You think about, you find, you have a, you think that you are principled, the principled person for honesty and, and integrity, and then you step into the back of an Uber and there's a,
Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)
- ▶ 28:53 Kiren Sekar We know from getting an Uber that you can track a vehicle in real time.
- ▶ 37:42 Kiren Sekar It's real time, like, like Uber. 2 times in the scene
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 37:41 David Cramer And like, I remember I go to like Airbnb, I go to Uber. 8 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.
- ▶ 16:46 Adam Guild We lose 30% of every order to delivery platforms like DoorDash and Uber Eats.
- ▶ 25:29 Adam Guild It's still not DoorDash or Uber Eats.
- ▶ 43:26 Brett Berson And it was still fulfilled through Uber and DoorDash, or how did the food actually get to people?
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.
- ▶ 1:06:52 Kevin Busque Like in the end TaskRabbit should have been Uber, right?
- ▶ 1:17:45 Kevin Busque Like we should have waited five years, followed on Uber or something like that.
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.
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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 Yuhki Yamashita You know, I actually had joined because I was at Uber before, and at Uber, we were one of the first large companies to experimentally use Figma, and I happened to be on the team that brought it on.
- ▶ 9:17 Brett Berson And in the sense of Figma and Uber, Microsoft, Google, all, I assume, build products differently are all known for great products in sort of different contexts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:20 Yuhki Yamashita Figma and Uber work in very different ways in terms of building products. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Yuhki Yamashita Like, I've always worked on core experiences, whether it was at YouTube or Uber or, you know, even, you know, initially at Figma, it was about, like, how do you take this thing that's
- ▶ 34:00 Yuhki Yamashita And certainly, there's a level of unlearning I even had to do coming into a place like Uber, where, you know, as I mentioned earlier, it's like, I remember the
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.
- ▶ 41:00 Krithika Muthukumar You have marketplaces like Uber or Airbnb that are not only accepting payments, but then paying out to the supply side of their marketplace.
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.
- ▶ 1:00:40 Sam Schillace You know, if you're Uber, the theory of self-driving or if you're Tesla, they make a bunch of, it makes a bunch of sense because there is a scale effect based on data and miles driven, you know, it'll get better over time.
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.
- ▶ 13:24 Casey Winters Uber was just so much better than a taxi, right?
- ▶ 26:31 Brett Berson One is you gave this really interesting sort of anecdote when you were leaving Grubhub, and I think you said DoorDash was coming up at the time, and or maybe Uber Eats or something else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:40 Casey Winters Companies that have raised four billion dollars each, I think, in Uber and DoorDash like to crush you.
- ▶ 30:21 Brett Berson What do you make of Uber versus Lyft in the United States? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:40 Casey Winters So they launched Uber Eats and look, the early Uber Eats model, I don't know if you remember it, it was not good. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:55 Brett Berson It's impressive if you're in the shoes of Uber in the very early days. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:18 Casey Winters And then TAM is kind of a misleading metric for marketplaces, because in all the biggest marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb, it looked like there was no TAM. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:42 Casey Winters So Uber would manually onboard every driver and Lyft in the early days, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:30 Casey Winters So at the low end, you have extremely low end as public transit, and then you have Uber and Lyft, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:13 Casey Winters A bunch of people tried to copy Uber's launcher strategy, and then a bunch of people like almost went bankrupt doing it because it's really expensive and they weren't raising billions.
- ▶ 1:11:45 Casey Winters And famously, Uber, like, does not believe this. 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.
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.
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.
- ▶ 1:41 Todd Jackson Its customer base is equally as impressive, with corporate giants like Vanguard and Accenture using Rider's technology, as well as tech companies like Dropbox, Spotify, and Uber.
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
- ▶ 0:46 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.
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.
- ▶ 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…
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.
- ▶ 20:12 Oliver Jay Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, you know, so forth. 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Will Larson So I think that the best one is kind of the, the Uber to Stripe transition. 6 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:59 Anique Drumright I think back to my time at like Uber, 2015, everyone really was trying to make transportation as easy as running water. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:40 Brett Berson So if you were to deconstruct what was happening at Uber at that time, what was sort of the setup or the conditions or the rituals that created that type of alignment at pretty meaningful scale? 8 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.
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.