Yesterday
Why founders should bet on first-time executives | Praveer Melwani (CFO, Figma)
In this latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Praveer Melwani, CFO at Figma. Praveer joined Figma in 2017 as the company's first business operations and finance hire—when the team was around 30 people and not yet charging for the product—and stepped into the ... Show More
43m 48s
Apr 30
Why great product leaders should stop obsessing over the roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)
In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett is joined by Diya Jolly, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero. Before Xero, Diya was CPT at Okta and led YouTube's advertising monetization products at Google. In this conversation, she unpacks her three-bucket framework ... Show More
49m 54s
Apr 21
Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis)
In this episode of In Depth, First Round Partner Josh Kopelman sits down with Shachar Hirshberg and Dan Shiebler, co-founders of Artemis, the AI-native security platform that just emerged from stealth with $70M in combined seed and Series A funding. Shachar and Dan unpack how the ... Show More
56m 59s
Aug 2025
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the no-code platform valued at around $12 billion. After a viral tweet declared “Airtable is dead” based on incorrect data, Howie led a radical transformation: reorganizing the entire company around AI, becoming an “IC CEO” who cod ... Show More
1h 40m
Sep 2025
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
Brendan Foody is the CEO and co-founder of Mercor, the fastest-growing company in history to go from $1M to $500M in revenue (in just 17 months!). At 22, he is also the youngest American unicorn founder ever. Mercor works with 6 of the Magnificent 7 and all top 5 AI labs to help ... Show More
1h 6m
Aug 2024
Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny)
<p><strong>Kevin Yien</strong> leads product for merchant experiences at Stripe. Before that, he meandered his way from being a technical designer to a product manager, built the restaurants business and ecosystem team at Square, and most recently was head of product and design a ... Show More
1h 28m
Oct 2024
E105: Ryan Serhant: How Successful Entrepreneurs Manage Time (1,000 Minute Rule)
David Weisburd speaks with Ryan Serhant, founder and CEO of Serhant, about the explosive growth following the Netflix debut of *Owning Manhattan*. They discuss how the show has transformed the business, increasing market diversification, website traffic, and lead engagement. Ryan ... Show More
39m 52s
Sep 2025
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author)
Julie Zhuo is the former VP and Head of Design at Facebook (now Meta), author of the bestselling book The Making of a Manager, and co-founder of Sundial, an AI-powered data analysis company. Also, my first-ever podcast guest over 3 years ago!In our conversation, we discuss:1. The ... Show More
1h 36m
Aug 2024
Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)
<p><strong>Brian Tolkin</strong> is the Head of Product at Opendoor. Previously, he was one of the early employees at Uber, where he was instrumental in launching and growing UberPool, UberHop, and UberExpress and started one of the first product operations teams in tech. In our ... Show More
1h 14m
Sprig is an AI-powered user insights platform that has raised over $88m. Today’s discussion features two key individuals in Sprig’s journey so far: Ryan Glasgow, Sprig’s CEO and founder; and Kevin Mandich, Sprig’s Head of Machine Learning. Before Sprig, Ryan was an early PM at GraphScience, Vurb, and Weeby (all of which were acquired), and Kevin was an ML En ... Show More
<p>You're smart. You know your business cold. But do you know how to build the right AI team? It's harder than it looks, and the old innovation playbook just won't cut it.</p> <p>Pete Buer sits down with Ben Hafele, CEO of <a href= "https://leanstartup.co/" target="_blank" rel="n ... Show More
<p><strong>Eilon Reshef</strong> is the co-founder and chief product officer at Gong, one of the most ubiquitous B2B products in the world. In our conversation, we discuss:</p><p>• Gong’s unique approach to working with design partners</p><p>• Their unique pod model</p><p>• Why E ... Show More
