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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