In Depth

Business & Economics Podcasts

Welcome to In Depth, a podcast from The First Round Review that’s dedicated to surfacing the tactical advice founders and startup leaders need to grow their teams, their companies and themselves. Hosted by Brett Berson, a partner at First Round, In...

Episodes

How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)

Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)

Why founders should bet on first-time executives | Praveer Melwani (CFO, Figma)

Why great product leaders should stop obsessing over the roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)

Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis)

Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)

The most politically dangerous role in the C-suite | Katie Burke (COO, Harvey)

What nobody tells engineers about becoming a CEO | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)

The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)

Building Zipline: From launch disaster to drone-delivery giant | Keller Cliffton (Co-founder, CEO)

Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)

Why 90% of CROs will fall behind in the next 2 years | Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta)

Figma is not the source of truth | Ryan Lucas (VP of Design, Rippling)

Executive Function: Building systems that can make decisions without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)

Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)

How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)

How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)

Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped Serval's AI agents for IT teams | Jake Stauch (Founder and CEO)

The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CEO)

From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s story | Michael Chime (Co-founder & CEO of Prepared)