A new publication from First Round: Applied Intelligence
Learn how companies are actually using AI, and the results they’re experiencing
A new publication from First Round: Applied Intelligence
When Should You Stop Clinging to Product and Hire Your First PM? Advice From a Founder and CPO
Saumil Mehta outlines a framework for early-stage founders on timing the first product manager hire.
October 30, 2025
The 100 Best Bits of Advice from 10 Years of First Round Review
We combed The Review archives for a special compilation of the 100 very best advice published on our digital pages over the last 10 years from folks...
November 16, 2023
Not Another VC Blog - First Round Review
Introducing The First Round Review, the first VC-run publication providing actionable insights from the top people in technology.
February 05, 2015
Founders and operators who’ve successfully built forward deployed engineering teams share the nuances that make this idiosyncratic role work, along...
February 24, 2026
Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework
Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a...
January 14, 2021
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
From Stripe to Notion, Cristina Cordova has worked on some of the biggest products in tech. She shares tactical tidbits on what she’s learned about...
March 22, 2022
The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder
Gloria Lin opens up about her pre-founder journey, from how to find a co-founder and early conversations, to the set of 50 questions she prototyped to...
September 30, 2019
Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company
I joined Applied Intuition as a new-grad engineer back in early 2019, when it was just a handful of us working above a bar on Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale...
June 03, 2026