In Depth

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 Depth will cover a lot of ground and a wide range of topics, from hiring executives and becoming a better manager, to the importance of storytelling inside of your organization. But every interview will hit the level of tactical depth where the very best advice is found. We hope you’ll join us. Subscribe to “In Depth” now and learn more at firstround.com

Business
Management
Entrepreneurship
1
Executive Function: Building systems that can m...
75 min
2
Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil ...
74 min
3
How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup”...
65 min
4
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zac...
84 min
5
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped ...
83 min
6
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosiv...
59 min
7
From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s s...
69 min
8
Saying yes to everything: How customer obsessio...
68 min
9
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” |...
72 min
10
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman...
66 min
11
How Canva leveraged unconventional growth lever...
64 min
12
Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for ...
65 min
13
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B f...
61 min
14
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving ca...
60 min
15
What Braintrust got right about product-market ...
70 min
16
How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by ident...
55 min
17
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry t...
101 min
18
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in...
93 min
19
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead...
79 min
20
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The st...
74 min
21
How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar...
60 min
22
1Password’s growth story | How they went from b...
68 min
23
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | O...
83 min
24
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep...
Eeke de Milliano is the Head of Global Product at Stripe, helping drive innovation and success in the company's product line. Before this role, she was Head of Product at Retool and co-founded Constellate. Eeke previously spent 6 years as Product Lead at Stripe, working with the company during their hyper-growth era.
59 min
25
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s...
Kevin Busque is the co-founder and CEO of Guideline, a 401(k) management company revolutionizing the retirement space for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to Guideline, Kevin co-founded Taskrabbit, where he encountered firsthand the complexity and low participation rates of traditional 401(k) plans—largely due to confusing fee structures.
84 min