Episodes 180
Avg. Duration 1h 4m
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Apple Rating 4.8 (59)
Since Oct 2020
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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

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How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)

Jun 04, 2026 1h

In today's conversation, Brett sits down with CMO of Figma, Sheila Joglekar Vashee. Previously the second marketing hire at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company past $1 billion in revenue, she…

Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)

May 21, 2026 1h 2m

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Graham Moreno, Head of GTM at Parallel Web Systems. Before Parallel, Graham scaled Windsurf's GTM organization from three sellers to…

Why founders should bet on first-time executives | Praveer Melwani (CFO, Figma)

May 14, 2026 43m

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…

Why great product leaders should stop obsessing over the roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)

Apr 30, 2026 49m

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…

Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis)

Apr 21, 2026 56m

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…

Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)

Apr 17, 2026 1h 2m

In this latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Christopher Payne, who spent a decade as President and COO at DoorDash, helping scale the company from roughly 70 employees to the…

The most politically dangerous role in the C-suite | Katie Burke (COO, Harvey)

Apr 10, 2026 1h 11m

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Katie Burke, who recently became COO of Harvey after joining as Chief People Officer. Before Harvey, Katie spent 11 years in HR…

What nobody tells engineers about becoming a CEO | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)

Mar 26, 2026 1h 6m

Jay Kreps is the co-founder and CEO of Confluent, the company built around Apache Kafka — the open-source data streaming platform he originally built while at LinkedIn. In this conversation, Jay…

The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)

Mar 19, 2026 1h 9m

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett is joined by Jeremy Epling, CPO of security and compliance platform Vanta. Jeremy details his career journey, unpacking what it took to make the…

Building Zipline: From launch disaster to drone-delivery giant | Keller Cliffton (Co-founder, CEO)

Mar 12, 2026 1h 10m

Keller Cliffton is the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, the world's largest commercial autonomous delivery system, which today serves 5,000 hospitals across multiple countries and saves an estimated…

Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)

Feb 26, 2026 59m

Chris Degnan was the first sales hire at Snowflake and spent 11 years scaling the company from zero to $3.5 billion in revenue as its CRO, working alongside four different CEOs and learning from each…

Why 90% of CROs will fall behind in the next 2 years | Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta)

Feb 19, 2026 1h 11m

Stevie Case is the CRO of Vanta, the trust management platform serving everyone from founders to Fortune 100 CISOs. A former pro-video gamer who stumbled into sales through a mentor's bet, Stevie has…

Figma is not the source of truth | Ryan Lucas (VP of Design, Rippling)

Feb 12, 2026 1h 6m

In the second Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Ryan Lucas, VP of Design at Rippling. Before Rippling, Ryan led design at Retool and co-founded multiple startups, bringing a rare…

Executive Function: Building systems that can make decisions without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)

Feb 05, 2026 1h 15m

In the first Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Jeanne De Witt Grosser, Chief Operating Officer at Vercel. Before Vercel, Jeanne spent nearly a decade at Stripe, where she built and…

Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)

Dec 10, 2025 1h 14m

Anil Varanasi is the co-founder and CEO of Meter, which provides full-stack networking infrastructure as a service for businesses. Since founding Meter with his brother Sunil in 2015, Anil has been…

How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)

Nov 19, 2025 1h 5m

Jyoti Bansal is the co-founder and CEO of Harness, the software delivery platform used by thousands of engineering teams, and previously founded AppDynamics, which he led from inception to a…

How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)

Nov 06, 2025 1h 24m

Zack Kanter is the founder and CEO of Stedi, an API-first healthcare clearinghouse. After bootstrapping a wildly profitable auto-parts business, he sold it to tackle "the most complicated problem"…

Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped Serval's AI agents for IT teams | Jake Stauch (Founder and CEO)

Oct 23, 2025 1h 23m

Jake is the founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-driven IT automation and service management platform that just raised $47M in Series A funding this week. Before founding Serval, Jake spent over five…

The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)

Oct 22, 2025 59m

Gorkem Yurtseven is the co-founder and CTO of fal, the generative media platform powering the next wave of image, video, and audio applications. In less than two years, fal has scaled from $2M to…

From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s story | Michael Chime (Co-founder & CEO of Prepared)

Oct 01, 2025 1h 9m

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Prepared, the AI assistant for 911 calls that helps dispatchers capture information faster, translate emergency calls in real time, and deliver lifesaving context…

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