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- Scaling - First Round
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- figma-is-not-the-source-of-truth-ryan-lucas-vp-of-design-rippling-md.html
- Launching out of stealth - First Round
- linears-path-to-product-market-fit-md.html
- notion-put-an-engineer-in-sales-to-build-better-ai-tools-md.html
- The Best Bits of Company Building Advice since 2013
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- Sense of Community Index 2 (SCI-2):
- If you're a founder brushing up on Sales 101:
- Insights from Building Figma
- If you're transitioning from scrappy founder to established CEO:
- If you're a founder building out your team:
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- Insights from Building Notion
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- Insights from Building Instacart
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- If you're trying to take better care of yourself:
- If you're seeking some career advice:
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- If you're a startup's first people leader:
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- First Round Glossary
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- Podcast - First Round
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- What startups get wrong about enterprise | Lindsey Scrase (COO, Checkr)
- How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- Watch: Launching Gravitas, one of the highest-powered spacecraft ever built
- Why Plaid’s COO cold-calls new hires | Eric Sager (COO of Plaid)
- How Supabase became the essential infrastructure for the AI era | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- Listen: Figma’s CMO thinks safe marketing is risky
- How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)
- What it’s like to work at Applied Intuition, the quietly dominant AI company
- Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company
- Listen: Why AI makes great salespeople matter even more
- Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- “AI-Powered” Isn’t a Position
- Why founders should bet on first-time executives | Praveer Melwani (CFO, Figma)
- From the inside: What it's like to work at Clay
- Firsthand: How I Bet On Clay (And It Bet On Me)
- Why great product leaders should stop obsessing over the roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)
- Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis)
- You don't know Lenny Rachitsky
- Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- What really motivates Lenny Rachitsky?
- Reluctantly Influential: Inside Lenny Rachitsky’s Demandingly Chill Life
- The most politically dangerous role in the C-suite | Katie Burke (COO, Harvey)
- What nobody tells engineers about becoming a CEO | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
- How fixing 401(k) the hard way led Guideline's founder to a major exit
- Guideline's Path to Product-Market Fit — The Early Decisions That Powered Its Acquisition by Gusto
- Listen: Why crazy deadlines produce better products than strategy docs
- The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- Building Zipline: From launch disaster to drone-delivery giant | Keller Cliffton (Co-founder, CEO)
- Stop asking “What’s your biggest pain point?” in customer discovery
- Serval's Path to Product-Market Fit — Win Enterprise Buyers by Treating Them Like Consumers
- Listen: Snowflake’s former CRO on scaling from $0 to $3.5B (and surviving 4 CEOs)
- Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- Do you really need a forward deployed engineer?
- So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer
- Listen: Most CROs are salespeople. Vanta’s CRO says that's changing
- Why 90% of CROs will fall behind in the next 2 years | Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta)
- Listen: Why Rippling’s VP of Design thinks speed improves quality
- Figma is not the source of truth | Ryan Lucas (VP of Design, Rippling)
- A new podcast from First Round: How the top 0.001% of scaleup execs operate
- Executive Function: Building systems that can make decisions without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
- Executive Function
- Mastering the skill of company-building, from Applied Intuition’s founder
- Applied Intuition’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The $15B Founder’s Formula for a Winning Company
- What cold-calling from a closet taught Gusto’s founder about PMF
- Gusto’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How Listening to Customers Built a $9.6B Company
- The unconventional growth levers that made Canva a $42B company
- Canva’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Two-Hour Founder Date Led To a $42B Design Platform
- The best company building advice we heard in 2025
- The 30 Best Pieces of Company Building Advice We Heard in 2025
- The most honest lessons about the path to product-market fit
- Notion put an engineer in sales to build better AI tools
- Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
- The merger playbook: A founder’s firsthand story of the deal that beat the odds
- The Merger Playbook: Crossbeam’s CEO Breaks Down Every Detail of the Deal That Worked
- Listen: How this two-time billion-dollar founder wins in the enterprise
- How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
- The process I've used to name dozens of companies
- What’s in a Name? A Lot, Actually. Here’s How to Pick the Right One For Your Company
- The other PMF: how personality-message fit helps founders communicate better
- The Other PMF: Wes Kao’s Framework for Founders Who Want to Communicate — and Lead — Better
- How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- How a high school dropout built one of the world’s most-used developer tools
- Sentry's Path to Product-Market Fit — A High School Dropout Turned an Open-Source Project into a $3B Company
- When founders should quit as head of product — and hire the first PM
- When Should You Stop Clinging to Product and Hire Your First PM? Advice From a Founder and CPO
- The trap of weak product-market fit — lessons from Mercury’s founder
- Mercury’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Do the Hard Part First
- What Is an Economic Moat? Definition, Types, and More
- Operating Leverage: What It Is, How to Calculate, and More
- What Are OKRs? Definition, Framework, and How to Set Effective Goals
- Burn Rate: Definition, Formula and How to Calculate
- Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped Serval's AI agents for IT teams | Jake Stauch (Founder and CEO)
- The compensation rules to follow (and break), according to experts
- What Early Stage Founders Should Know About Comp: The Rules To Break (And A Few You Should Actually Follow)
- The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CEO)
- Pivot: Meaning in Business & How to Execute
- Run Rate
- Lifetime Value
- Gross Margin
- What is Bootstrapping in Business?
- How to avoid a co-founder breakup before Series B
- Renew Your Co-Founder Vows — and Other Tactics for Strengthening the Most Important Relationship in Your Startup
- Inside Warp’s coding by prompt mandate (and how the CEO follows it too)
- Freemium Model: How Freemium Works, Examples, Strategy
- GMV (Gross Merchandise Value): Definition, Formula & Growth
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Types and Examples
- Churn Rate for SaaS: Definition, Formulas & How to Reduce It
- Beta Testing: Definition, Types, Pros & How to Run
- Founders, you’re missing this key step on the path to product-market fit
- A Research Thinking Toolkit to Speed Up the Discovery Phase
- Technical Debt
- Cash Runway
- ARPU
- Break-Even Point
- Growth Hacking
- How Brex is building an AI-first operations org
- Why Sierra built a design partnership program on “hard mode”
- The Hard Way Pays Off: Inside Sierra’s Design Partner Strategy
- Net Revenue Retention (NRR): Definition and Strategies
- K-factor: The Metric Behind Virality
- What is ARR?
- Scalability: True Meaning for Businesses
- What is a Stealth Mode Startup?
- Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)
- Idea validation tactics they won’t teach you in business school
- Is Your Startup Idea Any Good? Borrow These Validation Tactics from the Founders of Linear, Mercury and More
- Starting an edtech giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder and CEO)
- What your startup does (and doesn’t) need to come out of stealth
- How to Launch Your Startup Out of Stealth, from Figma's First Marketer
- Scale smarter, not bigger: Inside Linktree’s internal AI adoption playbook
- From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- How to use your industry outsider status to your advantage
- To Learn a New Market, Start by Building Your Product — Tactics From a Twitter PM Turned Healthcare Founder
- How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
- Don’t ship your pitch deck to your website
- Don’t Ship Your Pitch Deck to Your Website. Here’s How to Translate Your Story for Customers
- Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)
- Inside Owner’s zigzag path to a billion-dollar business
- The Story Behind Owner’s Pivots to a Billion-Dollar Business
- Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn | Immad Akhund (Co-founder and CEO of Mercury)
- Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- Why Linear puts craft above all metrics
- Linear’s Path to Product-Market Fit
- What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- How Carta saves 3,500+ hours per month using AI agents
- A new publication from First Round: Applied Intelligence
- Stop playing customer success hero. Here’s how to build your first team.
- The Founder’s Guide to Building a V1 of Customer Success
- How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
- How to go from random wins to repeatable revenue
- How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder and CPO)
- Can you be a good micromanager?
- Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here's How the Best Founders and Operators Balance Details and Delegation
- Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder and CEO)
- Rent-an-exec: Should you hire a fractional leader?
- Should You “Rent” an Exec for Your Startup? A Fractional COO Weighs In
- Inside Figma's human-centered approach to building AI
- The AI Eval Process for Figma's AI Product
- How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | Wes Kao (Executive coach, co-founder of Maven)
- How to hang on to conviction in an emerging market: Braze's long game to PMF
- How to Build for a Market That Doesn’t Exist Yet — Braze’s Path to Product-Market Fit
- How to spot the wrong customer before they burn your roadmap
- Zero to $5M
- Thinking about becoming a founder? Here’s how to emotionally prepare
- Thinking About Taking the Founder Leap? Here’s How to Prep for the Emotional Gauntlet
- From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
- How to make craft your moat
- The Unsung Ingredient in Stripe, Square and Linear’s Success: Taste
- How to build and grow the human side of your engineering org
- Mastering the Human Side of Engineering: Lessons from Apple, Palantir and Slack
- From weekend project to Fortune 10 adoption
- From Weekend Project to Fortune 10 Adoption — Reducto's Path to Product-Market Fit
- How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto)
- 1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
- Inside Superhuman’s onboarding strategy: from human-led to self-serve
- How to Build and Scale Onboarding
- From two-person consultancy to $4.2B software business — dbt Labs’ Path to PMF
- dbt Labs' Path to Product-Market Fit
- A playbook for running “founder-led” growth
- Founder-Led Growth Playbook
- Square’s former CEO on the two crucial components of org design
- How to design your org
- The Pivot to Product-Market Fit
- A playbook for building deep tech startups
- Building a Deep Tech Company? Most Startup Advice Doesn’t Apply — Read This Instead
- Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Owner’s unconventional journey to product-market fit | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- 17,784 hours: Exactly how one startup founder spent 5 years building
- How I Spent 17,784 Hours in 5 Years as a Startup Founder
- How Plaid, Clay, Lattice & other startups pivoted to find PMF
- A complete guide to your startup’s first sales hire
- What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Head of Global Product at Stripe)
- How Figma chooses, builds & launches new products
- How to Scale Your Product from Figma's CPO
- Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Building from first principles, finding strategic edges, and rewiring retirement | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- The rotation program that keeps this startup’s engineers learning (and not leaving)
- The Rotation Program That Keeps This Startup’s Engineers Learning — and Not Leaving
- Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition | Bill Magnuson (Co-founder & CEO) and Kevin Wang (CPO)
- EvolutionIQ’s path to product-market fit — and a $730M acquisition
- EvolutionIQ Just Got Acquired for $730M — Here's Their Playbook For Building an Enduring AI Business
- An engineering leader’s advice for pivoting from manager to IC
- This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineering Leaders Back into Frontline Developers
- 10x, 10x, 6x — The exact GTM moves behind Clay’s explosive revenue growth
- Inside Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand (Co-founder and Head of Operations)
- The inside story of the idea & launch of Figma Slides
- How to Make Your Product Idea Go Viral Inside Your Company: Lessons from Figma Slides
- Sam Corcos
- Pete Kazanjy
- Indra Sofian
- The 30 best pieces of advice we heard in 2024
- The 30 Best Pieces of Company Building Advice We Heard in 2024
- Yuliya Bel
- Yuuki Ogino
- Matt Wallaert
- Lenny Rachitsky
- Gokul Rajaram
- Dave Girouard
- Building a 4 billion dollar data platform: Inside dbt Labs’ unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Co-founder and CEO, ex-RJMetrics, Squarespace)
- Fight off organizational entropy with this guide from Rippling’s COO
- Everything in Business is About Fighting Entropy — Here’s How Rippling Does It
- 25 tough questions for founder self-reflection
- 25 Hard Questions Every Founder Should Ask Themselves
- How Figma taps into product taste, simplicity and storytelling
- How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma, ex-Uber, Google, Microsoft)
- What this founder learned from losing product-market fit
- A 3X Founder's Guide to Intellectual Honesty
- How to Scale a Marketplace: Lessons from Grubhub & Pinterest
- A growth expert’s guide to building billion-dollar marketplaces
- 9 Essential Skills for Marketing You Need on Your Resume
- Annual Planning Sucks — A CPO, CRO, CFO, and COO Share Advice on How to Make it Better
- Your annual plan is already obsolete: here's how to fix it
- Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO’s Journey Leading in Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta (Rubrik, ex-LiveRamp)
- Replit’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The $1 Billion Side Project
- How Replit went from side project to a $1B business
- The Saboteurs That Threaten Innovation — And How to Handle Them
- How to Validate a Business Idea & Its Potential in 5 Steps
- How to Measure Product Market Fit: Tips & Metrics to Master
- 0 to 1 Lessons from Lattice’s First Marketing Hire
- How to find and pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder and CEO at SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- A step-by-step guide to starting a B2B marketing engine from scratch
- How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Co-founder and CEO at Crossbeam, ex-RJMetrics and Stitch Data)
- Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them
- Non-obvious signs of early traction — and how to spot them
- Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO
- Why startup marketers should be diagnosticians
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