Episodes
Four years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
25 episodes in 2025
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 14m Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
In this in-depth interview, Meter co-founder and CEO Anil Varanasi details how he and his brother Sunil built a vertically integrated enterprise networking company from first principles. He …
41 statements 12 featured 5 assessments 2 contradicted
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 5m How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
In this in-depth conversation, Harness CEO and AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal breaks down his systematic playbooks for scaling enterprise software companies, mastering go-to-market alignme…
33 statements 9 featured
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 24m How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
In this in-depth interview, Stedi founder and CEO Zack Kanter shares his contrarian business philosophy on applying physical manufacturing discipline to software, transitioning from bootstra…
43 statements 11 featured 4 assessments
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1h 23m Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
Jake Stauch, co-founder and CEO of Serval, details how lessons from scaling Verkada shaped his strategy for building an AI-native enterprise IT platform. He explains how natural language cod…
44 statements 16 featured
🎙IN DEPTH
59m The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
In an in-depth conversation with First Round Capital's Todd Jackson, FAL co-founder and CTO Gorkem Yurtseven explains how the startup pivoted from data infrastructure to generative media inf…
28 statements 8 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 8m Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)
Samsara Chief Product Officer Kiren Sekar details how extreme customer obsession, rapid multi-vertical prototyping, and high-velocity execution transformed an early IoT hardware experiment i…
23 statements 7 featured 4 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 12m Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
ClassDojo co-founder and CEO Sam Chaudhary breaks down how the company transformed the difficult EdTech sector by prioritizing a consumer-first network model, achieving massive zero-dollar v…
24 statements 10 featured 6 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 6m From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
In this in-depth interview, Postman co-founder and CEO Abhinav Asthana chronicles how a personal Chrome extension built in Bangalore evolved into a multi-billion-dollar global API platform. …
20 statements 6 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 4m How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
Canva co-founder and Chief Product Officer Cameron Adams shares the pivotal product strategies, engineering decisions, and unconventional growth levers that transformed an ambitious Australi…
27 statements 10 featured 9 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 5m Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)
Former Twitter CEO and Parallel co-founder Parag Agrawal joins First Round's Todd Jackson to discuss rebuilding web infrastructure specifically for autonomous AI agents. He shares key insigh…
27 statements 10 featured 1 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 1m Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
In this deep-dive interview, Mercury co-founder and CEO Imad Akhund shares key insights from nearly two decades of founding startups, detailing how he challenged Silicon Valley orthodoxy, de…
27 statements 8 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 0m Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
In an in-depth conversation with Brett Berson, Applied Intuition founder and former Y Combinator COO Qasar Younis breaks down the rigorous operational playbook, domain expertise, and capital…
49 statements 15 featured 2 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 10m What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
Braintrust founder and CEO Ankur Goyal joins Brett Berson to break down the realities of building AI infrastructure, detailing the transition from the trap of weak product-market fit to genu…
28 statements 8 featured
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55m How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
Gusto co-founder and Chief Product Officer Tomer London shares the strategic and cultural lessons behind scaling a multi-billion-dollar people platform for small businesses. He details how h…
27 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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1h 41m How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
In this in-depth interview, Sentry co-founder David Cramer details his journey from self-taught high school dropout to tech executive, explaining how prioritizing developer-first market shar…
42 statements 11 featured 1 assessments
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1h 33m Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
In this in-depth interview, Linear co-founder and CEO Karri Saarinen shares how his journey through early design, Y Combinator, Coinbase, and Airbnb shaped Linear's contrarian philosophy on …
31 statements 9 featured
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 19m How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
In this interview, Maven co-founder Wes Kao shares practical communication models, leadership frameworks, and career strategies to help professionals influence stakeholders and operate in th…
15 statements 5 featured 1 assessments
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1h 14m From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
In this in-depth interview, Persona co-founder and CEO Rick Song shares how his initial skepticism, first-principles thinking, and disciplined horizontal platform strategy transformed a relu…
32 statements 8 featured 3 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 0m How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
In this episode of In-Depth, Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham shares how a weekend hack evolved into a multimillion-dollar AI document parsing platform processing millions of enterpri…
30 statements 12 featured 1 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 8m 1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
1Password CEO Jeff Shiner shares the company's remarkable journey from a bootstrapped Mac shareware utility into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise security leader. He outlines the strategic …
24 statements 9 featured 5 assessments
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 23m Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
In this episode of First Round Capital's In Depth podcast, Owner.com founder and CEO Adam Guild details his journey from teenage Minecraft entrepreneur to scaling a vertical SaaS platform fo…
22 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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59m What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
Eeke de Milliano, Global Head of Product at Stripe, explores why executive searches suffer from a 50 percent failure rate and shares actionable frameworks for candidate evaluation, cultural …
43 statements 10 featured 3 assessments
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1h 24m Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
Guideline co-founder and CEO Kevin Busque breaks down how rebuilding 401(k) record keeping from the ground up enabled the company to eliminate predatory fees and scale retirement benefits ac…
43 statements 12 featured 11 assessments 3 contradicted
🎙IN DEPTH
1h 23m Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition
Braze CEO Bill Magnuson and Chief Product Officer Kevin Wang discuss the company's journey from a 2011 hackathon project to a public enterprise software leader. They share insights on first-…
18 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
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1h 2m Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
Varun Anand details how Clay scaled from scrappy community experiments to a $1.25B valuation by innovating across product-led onboarding, usage-based credit pricing, hybrid GTM engineering r…
24 statements 8 featured 2 assessments