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by First Round
157 EPISODES
Sep 2021
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How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
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Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)
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Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn | Immad Akhund (Co-founder and CEO of Mercury)
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Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
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What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
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How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
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How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder and CPO)
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Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder and CEO)
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How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | Wes Kao (Executive coach, co-founder of Maven)
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From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
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How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto)
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1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
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Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Owner’s unconventional journey to product-market fit | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
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What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Head of Global Product at Stripe)
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Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Building from first principles, finding strategic edges, and rewiring retirement | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
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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)
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Inside Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand (Co-founder and Head of Operations)
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Building a 4 billion dollar data platform: Inside dbt Labs’ unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Co-founder and CEO, ex-RJMetrics, Squarespace)
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How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma, ex-Uber, Google, Microsoft)
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How to find customers in the Dept of Defense: From prototype to the Pentagon | Steve Blank (Hacking for Defense)
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Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO’s Journey Leading in Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta (Rubrik, ex-LiveRamp)
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How to find and pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder and CEO at SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
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How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Co-founder and CEO at Crossbeam, ex-RJMetrics and Stitch Data)
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Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO
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Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI, ex-Stripe, Retool, Dropbox, Google)
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Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Deputy CTO at Microsoft, creator of Google Docs)
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How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
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Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) | Milin Desai (Sentry, VMware, Riverbed)
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How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
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Timeless lessons on running software companies that endure | Alyssa Henry (Square, Amazon, Microsoft)
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Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
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A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
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Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Apple, Amazon, Buddybuild, Microsoft)
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Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
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The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
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Lessons from Gusto & Square on finding your product wedge | Michael Cieri
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A customer success masterclass | How to design, build, and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)
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The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
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Clay’s path to product-market-fit: Building vertical, creating power users, and understanding founder psychology | Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO)
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Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
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The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana, Dropbox)
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Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Building lean, starting young, and studying customers | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
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Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)
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The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI ethically | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
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A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, Uber, and Calm | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
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How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Co-Founder & CTO at Runway)
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How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)
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The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
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How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
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Building Zapier from first principles | Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO)
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