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In Depth

Welcome to In Depth, a new podcast from First Round Review that’s dedicated to surfacing the tactica

Episodes

Total: 152

How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
2025/7/1
1 chapters Transcript

Tomer London is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Gusto, the payroll and people platform u

How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder and CPO)
2025/6/19
9 chapters Transcript

David Cramer is the co-founder of Sentry, the leading open-source error monitoring tool used by over

Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder and CEO)
2025/6/5
1 chapters Transcript

Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, the project management tool built for high-perfo

How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | Wes Kao (Executive coach, co-founder of Maven)
2025/5/22
8 chapters Transcript

Wes Kao is an executive coach, advisor, and instructor, best known for her newsletter on high-impact

From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
2025/5/8
Transcript

Rick Song is the co-founder and CEO of Persona, the identity verification platform used by some of t

How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto)
2025/4/29
Transcript

Adit Abraham is the co-founder and CEO of Reducto, which helps leading AI teams extract and structur

1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
2025/4/24
8 chapters Transcript

Jeff Shiner is the CEO of 1Password, the access management company used by over 100,000 businesses a

Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Owner’s unconventional journey to product-market fit | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
2025/3/27
6 chapters Transcript

Adam Guild is the co-founder and CEO at Owner, an online food ordering system for independent restau

What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Head of Global Product at Stripe)
2025/3/6
28 chapters Transcript

Eeke de Milliano is the Head of Global Product at Stripe, helping drive innovation and success in th

Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition | Bill Magnuson (Co-founder & CEO) and Kevin Wang (CPO)
2025/2/6
3 chapters Transcript

Bill Magnuson is the co-founder and CEO at Braze, along with Kevin Wang, who joined as employee #8 a

Inside Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand (Co-founder and Head of Operations)
2025/1/23
3 chapters Transcript

Varun Anand is the co-founder and Head of Operations at Clay, a GTM development environment that com

Building a 4 billion dollar data platform: Inside dbt Labs’ unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Co-founder and CEO, ex-RJMetrics, Squarespace)
2024/12/19
8 chapters Transcript

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO at dbt Labs, a cloud-based data management platform that has ra

How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma, ex-Uber, Google, Microsoft)
2024/12/5
15 chapters Transcript

Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma, leading the product and design teams. Previou

How to find customers in the Dept of Defense: From prototype to the Pentagon | Steve Blank (Hacking for Defense)
2024/11/14
7 chapters Transcript

Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, where he co-created the "Hacking for Def

Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO’s Journey Leading in Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta (Rubrik, ex-LiveRamp)
2024/10/10
10 chapters Transcript

Anneka Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, a cloud management and data security company wi

How to find and pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder and CEO at SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
2024/9/26
1 chapters Transcript

Matt Lerner is the Founder and CEO at SYSTM, a startup coaching consultancy that helps high-potentia

How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Co-founder and CEO at Crossbeam, ex-RJMetrics and Stitch Data)
2024/9/19
1 chapters Transcript

Bob Moore is the co-founder and CEO at Crossbeam, a “LinkedIn for data” platform that helps companie

Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO
2024/9/5
9 chapters

Eoghan McCabe is the CEO and cofounder at Intercom, an AI customer service platform. Intercom has ra

Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI, ex-Stripe, Retool, Dropbox, Google)
2024/8/1
20 chapters

Krithika Muthukumar is a marketing veteran. She is currently the VP of Marketing at OpenAI where she

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