First Round Capital
Where "imagine if" gets to work so founders can take a straighter path from idea to PMF.
How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s story | Michael Chime (Co-founder & CEO of Prepared)
Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition
Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
How to find customers in the Dept of Defense: From prototype to the Pentagon | Steve Blank
Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO That's Led Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)