Episodes
Four years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
22 episodes in 2024
🎙IN DEPTH
55m Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
In this episode of First Round's In-Depth podcast, dbt Labs founder and CEO Tristan Handy shares how a bootstrapped data consultancy accidentally built a category-defining open-source analyt…
29 statements 9 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 9m How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
In this episode of In Depth, Figma Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita details his frameworks for product management, exploring how Figma scaled into a multi-product ecosystem, balanced si…
15 statements 5 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 9m Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO That's Led Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta
In this episode of In Depth, Rubrik Chief Product Officer Anneka Gupta shares tactical lessons on scaling enterprise software companies, executing radical product simplifications, and instil…
22 statements 7 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 5m How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
Growth expert and author Matt Lerner breaks down how early-stage startups can achieve breakout scale by mapping behavioral funnels, diagnosing system bottlenecks, and executing rapid experim…
22 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 18m How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
In this interview, serial entrepreneur Bob Moore shares tactical frameworks on validating venture-scale ideas, navigating the moving target of product-market fit across macro industry shifts…
27 statements 10 featured 2 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 15m Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO
Intercom co-founder and CEO Eoghan McCabe details his return to lead the company, sharing how he dismantled Silicon Valley orthodoxies, overhauled performance management, and executed a deci…
22 statements 9 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 8m Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
In this in-depth interview, Krithika Muthukumar shares tactical frameworks and leadership insights from her marketing career at Stripe, Retool, and OpenAI. She explains how to craft authenti…
28 statements 9 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 5m Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
In this in-depth conversation, Microsoft Deputy CTO and Google Docs creator Sam Schillace shares hard-won principles on market timing, technical taste, and building high-performing engineeri…
22 statements 9 featured 3 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 13m How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
In this in-depth interview with First Round Capital's Brett Berson, growth strategist Casey Winters breaks down the tactical mechanics of building, defending, and scaling venture-scale marke…
53 statements 13 featured 6 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
58m Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) | Milin Desai (CEO)
In this episode of First Round's In Depth podcast, Sentry CEO Milin Desai shares tactical playbooks on scaling developer-first software, executing a successful non-founder CEO transition, an…
18 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 15m How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
In this interview, Rippling COO Matt MacInnis shares contrarian operational philosophies and frameworks for scaling high-growth startups, emphasizing the 'go and see' principle, first-princi…
33 statements 12 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 16m Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
In this episode of First Round Capital's In Depth podcast, Daffy CEO Adam Nash shares foundational product management frameworks, platform design philosophies, and governance principles draw…
28 statements 8 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙IN DEPTH
43m A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
In this episode of First Round Capital's 'In Depth' podcast, Gong co-founder and Chief Product Officer Eilon Reshef shares how founder conviction, rapid user-centric prototyping, disciplined…
26 statements 9 featured 2 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
58m Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
Dennis Pilarinos, founder of BuddyBuild and Unblocked, shares strategic frameworks for developing developer tools, navigating platform shifts, and building enduring companies through relentl…
20 statements 8 featured
🎙IN DEPTH
40m Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
In this First Round Capital podcast episode, Writer co-founder and CEO May Habib outlines her strategic playbook for building, positioning, and scaling an enterprise-grade generative AI plat…
24 statements 9 featured
🎙IN DEPTH
53m The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad discusses the platform's journey from an in-browser coding experiment to a major cloud and AI-driven development ecosystem, sharing tactical lessons on …
29 statements 10 featured 4 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
59m Lessons from Gusto & Square on Finding Your Product Wedge | Michael Cieri
In this episode of In Depth, Gusto CPO and former Square product leader Michael Cieri shares tactical frameworks for evolving a product wedge into an expansive multi-product platform. He det…
20 statements 8 featured 2 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 11m A customer success masterclass | How to build and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)
In this masterclass, Stephanie Berner, Global Head of Customer Success for LinkedIn Sales Solutions, shares comprehensive, tactical frameworks for building and scaling a customer success org…
32 statements 10 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 4m The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
In this episode of In-Depth, veteran engineering leader and author Michael Lopp shares actionable frameworks for managing human dynamics, balancing structured execution with creative autonom…
26 statements 11 featured
🎙IN DEPTH
54m A product-market-fit masterclass | Kareem Amin (Clay)
In this episode of First Round's 'In Depth' podcast, Clay co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin shares tactical frameworks for discovering product-market fit, detailing how vertical narrowing, foun…
27 statements 9 featured 2 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 7m Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
In this episode of In Depth, Figma VP of Sales Kyle Parrish joins Brett Berson to break down how early-stage founders should evaluate and hire foundational commercial talent, operationalize …
31 statements 10 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 5m The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
Former Asana CRO and Dropbox sales leader Oliver Jay deconstructs the structural challenges of layering enterprise sales onto a product-led growth business. He shares actionable frameworks f…
31 statements 7 featured