Episodes
Four years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
19 episodes in 2023
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 9m Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
In this in-depth interview with First Round Capital's Brett Berson, legendary entrepreneur and Stanford professor Steve Blank examines founder psychology, the historical evolution and future…
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1h 14m Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)
In this in-depth interview, technologist and entrepreneur Neha Narkhede shares foundational strategies for scaling open-source and closed-source software companies based on her experiences b…
24 statements 10 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 23m The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
In this episode of In Depth, Google Product Director Jack Krawczyk discusses the creation, launch, and rapid evolution of Google Bard, offering tactical product management frameworks for bui…
27 statements 10 featured 3 assessments
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1h 18m A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
In this in-depth masterclass, Carta CTO Will Larson shares tactical frameworks for leading modern engineering organizations, covering technical strategy documentation, executive upward commu…
36 statements 13 featured 1 assessments
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59m How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Runway)
Runway co-founder and CTO Anastasis Germanidis shares tactical frameworks for building generative AI products, explaining how the company balances foundational research with creative tool de…
27 statements 8 featured 2 assessments
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1h 7m How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
In this in-depth conversation, Vercel founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch outlines the engineering philosophy, open-source commercialization, and radical product simplification behind Vercel and…
30 statements 9 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 14m The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
Ashley Kramer, CMO and CSO at GitLab, breaks down the strategies for scaling and monetizing an open core software business, covering radical operational transparency, community-driven market…
23 statements 10 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 14m How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
In this episode of In Depth, Omni CEO and former Looker executive Colin Zima shares tactical playbooks on scaling enterprise software companies through white-glove customer support, convicti…
25 statements 8 featured 1 assessments
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1h 7m Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
In this episode of First Round Capital's In Depth podcast, Zapier co-founder and CEO Wade Foster shares tactical lessons on building a $5 billion automation platform through disciplined hiri…
22 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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59m How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
In this episode of First Round Capital's In Depth podcast, Shippo co-founder and CEO Laura Behrens Wu shares how she disrupted the logistics industry as an outsider, detailing her journey fr…
21 statements 7 featured 4 assessments
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1h 4m AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
In this episode of First Round Capital's In Depth podcast, Rewind AI co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker discusses the architecture behind his memory augmentation platform, frameworks for enginee…
35 statements 11 featured 4 assessments
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1h 16m A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Sprig founder Ryan Glasgow and Head of Machine Learning Kevin Mandich share tactical guidance on building AI-first products, detailing their evolution from early human-in-the-loop NLP system…
25 statements 9 featured
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1h 14m An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
In this masterclass interview on First Round Capital's In Depth podcast, Square GM Saumil Mehta breaks down tactical principles for organizational design, sharing actionable frameworks for m…
30 statements 8 featured
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1h 12m How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
In this in-depth conversation, engineering leader Kellan Elliott-McCrea shares tactical frameworks for scaling engineering organizations, navigating the disruptive impact of AI on team sizin…
34 statements 11 featured 2 assessments
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1h 3m The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
In this episode of First Round's 'In Depth' podcast, Dock co-founder and former Lattice VP of Marketing Alex Kracov shares a tactical masterclass on zero-to-one B2B marketing. Drawing from s…
30 statements 10 featured 2 assessments
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1h 1m Lessons from Loom on product strategy and organizational leadership | Anique Drumright (COO at Loom)
In this 100th episode of First Round's In Depth podcast, Loom COO Anique Drumright shares tactical frameworks for integrating customer storytelling into early product development, maintainin…
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1h 16m Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
Noah Desai Weiss, Chief Product Officer at Slack, shares tactical insights on balancing data with product intuition, accelerating decision velocity, scaling from product-led growth to enterp…
31 statements 8 featured 3 assessments
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1h 18m Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org and tactical management advice | Jack Altman (Lattice)
In this interview on First Round Capital's In Depth podcast, Lattice CEO Jack Altman shares tactical frameworks and leadership lessons on scaling startups into multi-billion-dollar enterpris…
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55m Lessons from Stripe on adding new products | Tara Seshan (Watershed, Stripe)
Tara Seshan, Head of Product at Watershed and former Stripe leader, provides an actionable blueprint for scaling multi-product SaaS companies, structuring autonomous zero-to-one teams, and h…
29 statements 9 featured 1 assessments