# All of our Design articles

[**Canva’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Two-Hour Founder Date Led To a $42B Design Platform**  
Cameron Adams goes deep on finding early evangelists, the unconventional tactics that led to massive growth, and more.](https://review.firstround.com/canvas-path-to-product-market-fit-2/ "Canva’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Two-Hour Founder Date Led To a $42B Design Platform")

[**How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem**  
Tomer London is the co-founder and CPO of Gusto, the $9.5B payroll and HR platform serving 400K+ businesses. Inspired by his dad’s clothing shop in Israel, he set out to build better tools for small business owners.](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/how-gusto-built-a-9-5-billion-company-by-identifying-a-burning-problem/ "How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem")

[**The Unsung Ingredient in Stripe, Square and Linear’s Success: Taste**  
Tactical advice for weaving craft into your product and operationalizing taste.](https://review.firstround.com/stripe-square-linear-product-taste/ "The Unsung Ingredient in Stripe, Square and Linear’s Success: Taste")

[**Lessons in Product Scaling and Storytelling from Figma’s CPO**  
Figma CPO Yuhki Yamashita offers up his playbook for the gnarly phase of product building that arrives after a startup clinches product-market fit — and sets its sights on the next phase of growth.](https://review.firstround.com/lessons-in-product-scaling-and-storytelling-from-figmas-cpo/ "Lessons in Product Scaling and Storytelling from Figma’s CPO")

[**How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma, ex-Uber, Google, Microsoft)**](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/how-figma-taps-into-taste-simplicity-and-storytelling-yuhki-yamashita-cpo-at-figma-ex-uber-google-microsoft/ "How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma, ex-Uber, Google, Microsoft)")

[**How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)**  
Colin Zima is the co-founder and CEO of Omni, a business intelligence tool that has raised over $26.9m. Prior to starting Omni, Colin was Chief Analytics Officer and VP of Product at Looker, which was acquired by Google for $2.6b.](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/how-to-leverage-intuition-customer-support-and-raw-effort-colin-zima-omni-looker/ "How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)")

[**An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta**  
Saumil Mehta is the GM of Square’s flagship point-of-sale business, as well as CRM, Square Staff, and Square Online.](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/an-org-design-masterclass-from-a-square-gm-saumil-mehta/ "An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta")

[**The go-to-market guide for open-source companies — Douglas Hanna, COO Grafana Labs**  
Our guest today is Douglas Hanna, Chief Operating Officer at Grafana Labs. Grafana Labs is an observability stack built around Grafana, a leading open-source technology for dashboards and visualization. Douglas is a seasoned revenue leader, previously leading operations and GTM strategy at Zendesk.](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/the-go-to-market-guide-for-open-source-companies-douglas-hanna-coo-grafana-labs/ "The go-to-market guide for open-source companies — Douglas Hanna, COO Grafana Labs")

[**Why everything we’ve been taught about quitting is wrong — Annie Duke**  
Our guest is Annie Duke, a retired pro poker player and First Round’s Special Partner focused on Decision Science and author of the bestselling book, “Thinking in Bets.” In today’s conversation, we’re talking about her follow-up to that book, titled “Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away.”](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/why-everything-weve-been-taught-about-quitting-is-wrong-annie-duke/ "Why everything we’ve been taught about quitting is wrong — Annie Duke")

[**The Design Leadership Playbook: How to Hire, Onboard & Manage a High-Impact Design Org**  
From the high-level perspective of what makes for a great design leader, to the tactical suggestions around the slide that needs to be in your portfolio presentation, Twilio & Segment's Hareem Mannan shares useful advice for every stage of a designer's career.](https://review.firstround.com/the-design-leadership-playbook-how-to-hire-onboard-and-manage-a-high-impact-design-org/ "The Design Leadership Playbook: How to Hire, Onboard & Manage a High-Impact Design Org")

[**Take your design org from good to great with these principles from Segment to Twilio — Hareem Mannan**  
Today’s episode is with Hareem Mannan, who was a product design leader at Segment for nearly four years, and joined Twilio as a Senior Director of Product, Enablement & Design following the company’s acquisition of Segment.](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/take-your-design-org-from-good-to-great-with-these-principles-from-segment-to-twilio-hareem-mannan/ "Take your design org from good to great with these principles from Segment to Twilio — Hareem Mannan")

[**Building a hybrid go-to-market motion — GC Lionetti’s lessons from Confluent, Dropbox & Atlassian**  
Today’s episode is with Giancarlo 'GC' Lionetti, the former CMO of Confluent and VP of Self-Serve Growth at Dropbox.](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/building-a-hybrid-go-to-market-motion-gc-lionettis-lessons-from-confluent-dropbox-atlassian/ "Building a hybrid go-to-market motion — GC Lionetti’s lessons from Confluent, Dropbox & Atlassian")