All episodes
Lessons from Notion on building a thriving decentralized community — Ben Lang
From a narrow ICP to a wide-open market – Lessons from Webflow’s Bryant Chou on using customer empathy to get product-market fit
How to lead with transparency amidst adversity — Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit and former Google, Facebook & Pinterest exec
From kickoffs to retros and Slack channels — Stripe's documentation best practices with Brie Wolfson
Why comms deserves its own spot on the exec team — Aaron Zamost’s lessons from Square
What founders need to know about acquisitions: Shopify’s Daniel Debow on M&A lessons from selling three startups
How to build your culture like a product — Lessons from Anna Binder, Asana’s Head of People
How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 10 years at Greenhouse
Founders: Here’s how to get your sales pitch in ship-shape — Peter Kazanjy
Deepak Rao on how X1 pivoted, launched, built a +600K-long waitlist and fundraised in tough times
How to lower barriers to change when building and selling products — Jonah Berger’s advice for founders
How Retool reached $2M in ARR before launch by focusing on developers — David Hsu
How to approach GTM with an engineering lens — Rich Rao’s advice from Google & Meta
What startups can learn from enterprise corporate messaging — Sara Varni’s lessons from Salesforce & Twilio
Finding product-market fit twice — Alma’s Harry Ritter on pivots and staying close to customers
Why everything we’ve been taught about quitting is wrong — Annie Duke
How to scale your co-founder relationship alongside your startup — Manu Sharma & Brian Rieger of Labelbox
A crash course on founder-led customer success — Sydney Strader’s lessons from Catalyst & InVision
The founder’s guide to making your first few hires — Steven Bartel on recruiting at Gem & Dropbox
From product roadmapping to sprint planning: How to ship software at scale — Snir Kodesh
The 5 phases of Figma’s community-led growth — Claire Butler
Airtable’s path to product-market fit — co-founder Andrew Ofstad on building horizontal products
Operations vs. Algorithms: Advice for scaling startups, from Opendoor CTO Ian Wong
Want to go totally asynchronous? Repeat founder Sidharth Kakkar on building a remote team & autonomous culture
Why COO is the most fluid role in the C-Suite — Sara Clemens, former COO of Twitch & Pandora
From PM to VP of Product: Jiaona Zhang’s career advice from Webflow, Airbnb & Dropbox
“When They Win, You Win”: Russ Laraway unpacks his new guide for the modern manager
Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product leaders — Nate Stewart of Cockroach Labs
Building & selling a product into government is tricky — Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins shares critical advice for getting it right
The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas
How to handle comp challenges at every startup stage — Kaitlyn Knopp’s advice from Pequity, Instacart, Cruise & Google
A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice from Figma & Uber
How founders can get executive hiring right from startup to scale — advice from Lattice’s Jack Altman
IC? Manager? Technical Founder? How to chart your engineering career path — Stripe & Cocoon’s Amber Feng
Never done sales before? Meka Asonye shares GTM playbooks from Stripe, Mixpanel, and backing founders at First Round
The startup playbook for expanding internationally — Advice from Faire CEO Max Rhodes
Usage-based? Hybrid? Tiered? Which pricing model is right for you? — Stripe’s Jeanne DeWitt Grosser
The Product Strategy Playbook that Powered Growth at Tinder & TripAdvisor — Ravi Mehta
After building hundreds of startup brands, Arielle Jackson shares 6 early marketing missteps to avoid
Buy or build? Focus on the core product or innovate? Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott's advice for scaling
The biggest lessons from building Hubspot, from co-founder harmony to engineering the culture — Dharmesh Shah
The story of why Canva worked: Zach Kitschke shares his lessons from early hire to current CMO
Take your design org from good to great with these principles from Segment to Twilio — Hareem Mannan
Instacart co-founder Max Mullen gets tactical on crafting company values and intentionally building culture
Growing from founder to CEO: Executive coach Alisa Cohn on how to get better feedback
Executive hiring is incredibly difficult to get right — Robinhood COO Gretchen Howard shares her playbook
Building a hybrid go-to-market motion — GC Lionetti’s lessons from Confluent, Dropbox & Atlassian
Creating physical products and getting feedback from toddlers — KiwiCo’s Sandra Oh Lin
How to hire the right marketer at the right time for your startup — Mux & Segment’s Maya Spivak
From developer to CMO — Archana Agrawal’s marketing lessons from Airtable & Atlassian
How to pivot your way to product/market fit & other 0-1 lessons — Rupa Health CEO Tara Viswanathan
Building an operationally-intensive business and avoiding upside down unit economics — Thirty Madison’s Steve Gutentag
Don’t have a UX research team? Jane Davis’ tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox to get you started
Getting startup employees to stick around & learning from couples therapy — Flatiron’s Alex Buder Shapiro
How to find product/market fit before you start building — UserLeap’s Ryan Glasgow
Nick Caldwell on the engineering cultures that power Microsoft, Reddit, Looker & Twitter
“Everyone wants a silver bullet” — Selling lessons from Sam Taylor, of Dropbox, Quip & now Loom
The do’s and don’ts of scaling from dozens of employees to thousands — McKenna Quint
A look at one repeat founder’s frameworks for validating ideas — Pilot’s Waseem Daher
Killing stories and creating categories — Comms tips from Shannon Brayton’s 25+ years in tech
People leaders aren’t the CEO of culture, they’re product managers — Credit Karma’s Colleen McCreary
Go unreasonably deep on complex problems and build with naivety — Bowery Farming’s Irving Fain
The story behind Slack’s marketing and the leap from marketer to CEO — Abstract’s Kelly Watkins
Ask why it won’t work — Rick Song’s lessons from Square and building from 0 to 1
Product Pitfalls From 0 Customers to the Messy Middle and IPO — Eric Berg on Okta, Intel & Fauna
After leading product & growth teams at Instacart, Wealthfront & LinkedIn, Elliot Shmukler is tackling zero to one as founder & CEO of Anomalo
A deep-dive into product-led growth & self-serve strategies — Notion’s & Dropbox’s Kate Taylor
Setting up the people function and training for empathy — Lambda School’s Mark Frein
How Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta Parses Through Mountains of Advice as a First-Time Founder
Building engineering orgs and new products at Segment, Dropbox & Facebook — Tido Carriero
Essentials to engaging employees & developing high-quality managers — Qualtrics’ Russ Laraway
CEO Jeff Lawson Reflects on the Peaks and Valleys of Twilio’s Growth Story
Treat Operational Debt like Tech Debt — Leah Sutton on Elastic’s Distributed Work Playbook
“My product is the company” — Kevin Fishner on how startups can build better systems
Growing a consumer product from scratch to 1 billion users — Google Photos’ David Lieb
An inside look at the system that will outlast Bezos—Bill Carr & Colin Bryar on lessons from Amazon
From exec roles to board seats — Anne Raimondi’s leadership lessons for the startup C-Suite
Plaid & Dropbox’s Jean-Denis Grèze’s playbook for building an engineering culture of ownership
Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story
Unpacking all the non-consensus moves in Atlassian’s story — Jay Simons
Partnerships lessons from Stripe & Notion — Cristina Cordova on creating win-win deals
Start with the story — Drift’s David Cancel on lessons he’s learned as a 5X founder
Lessons from a first-time CEO — Steve El-Hage on learning everything the hard way
Product lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health — Ayo Omojola on going “unreasonably deep”
Molly Graham’s management lessons from Google, Facebook, Quip & Lambda School
Preview of In Depth from First Round