In Depth

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

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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-nativ...

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

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Christopher Payne, who spent a decade as President and COO at DoorDash, helping sca...

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

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Kreps is the co-founder and CEO of Confluent, the company built around Apache Kafka — the open-source data streaming platform he originally buil...

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

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett is joined by Jeremy Epling, CPO of security and compliance platform Vanta. Jeremy details his caree...

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

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Keller Cliffton is the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, the world's largest commercial autonomous delivery system, which today serves 5,000 hospitals ac...

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

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 alo...

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

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 stumb...

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

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the first Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Jeanne De Witt Grosser, Chief Operating Officer at Vercel. Before Vercel, Jeanne spent n...

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

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anil Varanasi is the co-founder and CEO of Meter, which provides full-stack networking infrastructure as a service for businesses. Since founding Mete...

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

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jyoti Bansal is the co-founder and CEO of Harness, the software delivery platform used by thousands of engineering teams, and previously founded AppDy...

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

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zack Kanter is the founder and CEO of Stedi, an API-first healthcare clearinghouse. After bootstrapping a wildly profitable auto-parts business, he so...

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

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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....

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

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 le...

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

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Prepared, the AI assistant for 911 calls that helps dispatchers capture information faster, translate emergency c...

Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kiren Sekar is the CPO of Samsara, a company that brings real-time visibility, analytics, and AI to physical operations. Before Samsara, Kiren was an ...

Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder and CEO)

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Chaudhary is the co-founder and CEO of ClassDojo, a multi-product education platform used in 95% of U.S. schools and over 180 countries globally t...

From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman, the world's leading API collaboration platform used by millions of developers and thousands of c...

How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cameron Adams is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, the design platform valued at $42B as of July 2025, used by over 230 million peopl...

Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Parag Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Parallel, a startup building search infrastructure for the web’s second user: AIs. Before launching Paral...

Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn | Immad Akhund (Co-founder and CEO of Mercury)

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Immad Akhund is the CEO and co-founder of Mercury, a digital banking platform that’s become the go-to financial infrastructure for startups. Before ...

Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Qasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a leading vehicle intelligence platform that helps companies develop and deploy autonomou...

What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ankur Goyal is the founder and CEO of Braintrust, an end-to-end platform for building AI apps. Before that, he founded Impira, a data management platf...

How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tomer London is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Gusto, the payroll and people platform used by over 400,000 businesses. He grew up helping...

How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder and CPO)

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Cramer is the co-founder of Sentry, the leading open-source error monitoring tool used by over 90,000 companies. A self-taught engineer, he went...

Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder and CEO)

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, the project management tool built for high-performance software teams. Since its founding in 2019,...

How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | Wes Kao (Executive coach, co-founder of Maven)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wes Kao is an executive coach, advisor, and instructor, best known for her newsletter on high-impact communication, and for co-founding course platfor...

From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rick Song is the co-founder and CEO of Persona, the identity verification platform used by some of the world’s largest companies. Before starting Pe...

How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto)

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adit Abraham is the co-founder and CEO of Reducto, which helps leading AI teams extract and structure data from complex documents and spreadsheets in ...

1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Shiner is the CEO of 1Password, the access management company used by over 100,000 businesses and millions of individuals worldwide. He joined 1P...

Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Owner’s unconventional journey to product-market fit | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Guild is the co-founder and CEO at Owner, an online food ordering system for independent restaurants. Within a year, Owner went from being about ...

What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Head of Global Product at Stripe)

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eeke de Milliano is the Head of Global Product at Stripe, helping drive innovation and success in the company's product line. Before this role, she wa...

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)

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Busque is the co-founder and CEO of Guideline, a 401(k) management company revolutionizing the retirement space for small and medium-sized busin...

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)

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Magnuson is the co-founder and CEO at Braze, along with Kevin Wang, who joined as employee #8 and serves as the CPO. The two MIT graduates have b...

Inside Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand (Co-founder and Head of Operations)

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Varun Anand is the co-founder and Head of Operations at Clay, a GTM development environment that combines data and AI to help over 5000 companies powe...

Building a 4 billion dollar data platform: Inside dbt Labs’ unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Co-founder and CEO, ex-RJMetrics, Squarespace)

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO at dbt Labs, a cloud-based data management platform that has raised over $400M to date, and was last valued at $4...

How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma, ex-Uber, Google, Microsoft)

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma, leading the product and design teams. Previously, he was a product and design leader at Uber, w...

How to find customers in the Dept of Defense: From prototype to the Pentagon | Steve Blank (Hacking for Defense)

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, where he co-created the "Hacking for Defense" curriculum for the Department of Defense. As...

Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO’s Journey Leading in Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta (Rubrik, ex-LiveRamp)

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anneka Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, a cloud management and data security company with a US$6B market cap. Before Rubrik, Anneka spent...

How to find and pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder and CEO at SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Lerner is the Founder and CEO at SYSTM, a startup coaching consultancy that helps high-potential companies grow their business. Matt also authore...

How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Co-founder and CEO at Crossbeam, ex-RJMetrics and Stitch Data)

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bob Moore is the co-founder and CEO at Crossbeam, a “LinkedIn for data” platform that helps companies find overlapping opportunities with their pa...

Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eoghan McCabe is the CEO and cofounder at Intercom, an AI customer service platform. Intercom has raised over $240M, and was last valued at $1.3B in 2...

Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI, ex-Stripe, Retool, Dropbox, Google)

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Krithika Muthukumar is a marketing veteran. She is currently the VP of Marketing at OpenAI where she was the first marketing hire. Before that, she wa...

Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Deputy CTO at Microsoft, creator of Google Docs)

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Schillace is the CVP and Deputy CTO at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, Sam held prominent engineering roles at Google and Box. He has also founded si...

How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Casey Winters is a legendary advisor on scaling, product and growth. He’s worked with companies like Airbnb, Faire, Canva, Whatnot, Thumbtack, Tinde...

Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) | Milin Desai (Sentry, VMware, Riverbed)

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Milin Desai is the CEO at Sentry, an application monitoring tool for developers. Sentry has recently passed two key milestones: 100K customers and ove...

How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matt MacInnis is the COO at Rippling, an all-in-one HR, IT, and finance platform for businesses, which last raised $500M at a $11.25B valuation. Befor...

Timeless lessons on running software companies that endure | Alyssa Henry (Square, Amazon, Microsoft)

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alyssa Henry is the former CEO of Square, a financial services company providing products and services used by over 4 million merchants. Formerly at A...

Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Nash is the co-founder and CEO at Daffy, a platform that makes it easier to donate to charities and non-profits. Before Daffy, Adam was the Presi...

A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eilon Reshef is the co-founder and CPO at Gong, an AI-powered platform that tracks, records, and analyzes sales calls to drive revenue growth. In 2021...

Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Apple, Amazon, Buddybuild, Microsoft)

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Pilarinos is the founder and CEO at Unblocked, a developer tool that lets you talk to your codebase. In 2018, Dennis’ first company, Buddybui...

Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

May Habib is the co-founder and CEO of Writer, a full-stack generative AI platform built for enterprises. The model is trained on a customer’s own d...

The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, an online platform designed for collaborative coding in multiple programming languages. Replit boasts...

Lessons from Gusto & Square on finding your product wedge | Michael Cieri

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Cieri is the Chief Product Officer at Gusto, an HR and payroll platform used by more than 300,000 businesses. With a decade of experience, he ...

A customer success masterclass | How to design, build, and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Berner is a Customer Success Executive at LinkedIn. Since 2018, Stephanie has spearheaded all post-sales functions at LinkedIn Sales Solutio...

The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Lopp is an experienced engineering leader known for building products at iconic companies like Apple, Borland, Netscape, Palantir, and Slack. ...

Clay’s path to product-market-fit: Building vertical, creating power users, and understanding founder psychology | Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO)

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kareem Amin is the co-founder of Clay, a lead-generation software that uses AI to scrape 50+ databases and help companies scale their outbound campaig...

Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Parrish, Figma’s first sales hire, built the company’s zero-to-one sales engine from scratch. Figma now has more than 3 million monthly users...

The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana, Dropbox)

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Jay is a sales and expansion specialist. Oliver was Chief Revenue Officer at Asana and led the company’s global expansion. He grew the team f...

Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Building lean, starting young, and studying customers | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Blank, an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, is widely regarded as the father of modern entrepreneurship. Prior to academia, Steve’s ca...

Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Neha Narkhede is a co-founder at Confluent, a data streaming software that raised at a $9.1b valuation in 2021. Neha later co-founded Oscilar, a no-co...

The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI ethically | Jack Krawczyk (Google)

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Krawczyk is a Senior Director of Product at Google, building Bard. Bard is Google’s collaborative, conversational, and experimental AI tool tha...

A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, Uber, and Calm | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Will Larson is the CTO at Carta, an ownership and equity management platform that raised at a $7.4b valuation in 2021. Prior to joining Carta, Will wa...

How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Co-Founder & CTO at Runway)

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anastasis Germanidis is the Co-Founder & CTO at Runway, an applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment, and human creativit...

How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Guillermo Rauch is the CEO of Vercel, a frontend-as-a-service product that was valued at $2.5b in 2021. Vercel serves customers like Uber, Notion an...

The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Kramer is the CMO and CSO at GitLab, a publicly listed DevSecOps platform. Ashley took a unique path into her CMO role. She started out in soft...

How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Analyt...

Building Zapier from first principles | Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO)

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Wade Foster is the Co-founder & CEO at Zapier, a platform for building workflow automations without a developer. Zapier was started during 2011 in Col...

How young outsiders changed the shipping industry by finding product-market fit again and again | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Behrens Wu is the Founder & CEO at Shippo, a company that has raised $100m+ and was last valued at $1b in 2021. Shippo provides an API and dashb...

AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Siroker is the co-founder and CEO at Rewind AI, a personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard. Dan launched Rewind to an e...

A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sprig is an AI-powered user insights platform that has raised over $88m. Today’s discussion features two key individuals in Sprig’s journey so f...

An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Saumil Mehta is the GM of Square’s flagship point-of-sale business, as well as CRM, Square Staff, and Square Online. Before Square, Saumil was the F...

How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kellan Elliott-McCrea is a Head of Engineering at Adobe, overseeing Frame.io, a newly acquired video review and collaboration platform. He is known fo...

The zero to one B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Kracov is the CEO and Co-Founder at Dock, and the former VP of Marketing at Lattice. Alex joined Lattice as the first marketer and third employee...

Lessons from Loom on product strategy, organizational leadership, and cross-functional performance | Anique Drumright (COO at Loom)

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anique Drumright is the COO at Loom, a video communication tool for streamlining workflows. Loom has raised over $200M, and was last valued at $1.5B. ...

Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings — Noah Desai Weiss

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Noah Desai Weiss is the Chief Product Officer of Slack, and has an accomplished track record inside and outside of the company. He started Slack’s S...

Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org, developing yourself, and tactical management advice | Jack Altman (Lattice)

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Altman is the co-founder and CEO of Lattice, a people success platform for building engaged, high-performing teams. Lattice has raised over $330M...

Lessons from Stripe on adding new products - Assessing ideas, structuring teams, and tactics for product reviews | Tara Seshan (Watershed, Stripe)

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tara Seshan is the Head of Product at Watershed, a climate platform that companies use to measure, report, and reduce their carbon emissions. Before j...

How to design a high-impact growth org for a PLG startup — Webflow & Dropbox’s Melissa Tan

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Melissa Tan, GM of Self-Service and Head of Growth at Webflow and formerly Head of Growth and Monetization for Dropbox Business....

Why is the transition from IC Engineer to Manager so tricky (and how to get it right)? — Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma and former VP of Engineering at Slack. In today’s conversation, he unpacks...

How to pull off the ‘zoom-in pivot,’ and other lessons in early-stage building with Luminai’s Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Jackson is back on the mic to guest host another product-focused episode. This time, he chats with Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran, co-founder and CEO of...

The go-to-market guide for open-source companies — Douglas Hanna, COO Grafana Labs

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Douglas Hanna, Chief Operating Officer at Grafana Labs.  Grafana Labs is an observability stack built around Grafana, a leading o...

What this 3-time founding team did differently to find product-market fit faster — Jessica McKellar, CTO of Pilot

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s conversation is with Jessica McKellar, co-founder and CTO of Pilot, which is the largest accounting firm for startups. She’s been workin...

How to measure product-market fit with the REV model — Artem Kroupenev

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Artem Kroupenev, VP of Strategy at Augury.  Augury is a leader in a category they helped to define known as “machine health.” ...

The early user research playbook for founders — Jeanette Mellinger’s expert advice for validating your idea with high-quality interviews

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Jeanette Mellinger, Head of UX Research at BetterUp and our User Research Expert in Residence at First Round. In today’s con...

Claire Hughes Johnson on being a “learning organism” during Stripe’s growth, and more scaling advice for leaders

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe and author of the new book, “Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Bu...

Notion’s Head of Marketing on building a growth marketing engine at a PLG company — Rachel Hepworth

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Rachel Hepworth, Head of Marketing at Notion.  Rachel currently runs growth marketing at Notion, and sees her job as bringing proc...

What makes someone a truly remarkable talent evaluator — Nadia Singer, Figma’s Chief People Officer

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Nadia Singer, Chief People Officer at Figma.  Nadia joined Figma in 2020 and has seen explosive growth in her own career alongside...

How Vanta’s founder bet big on startup security and found product-market fit — Christina Cacioppo

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Jackson is back on the mic to guest host another product-focused episode this week with Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of Vanta. ...

Lessons from Notion on building a thriving decentralized community — Ben Lang

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Ben Lang, Head of Community at Notion.  Since joining the company in 2019, Ben has had his hand in several high-impact project...

From a narrow ICP to a wide-open market – Lessons from Webflow’s Bryant Chou on using customer empathy to get product-market fit

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Jackson is back on the mic to guest host another product-focused episode this week. He chats with Bryant Chou, co-founder and founding CTO of W...

How to lead with transparency amidst adversity — Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit and former Google, Facebook & Pinterest exec

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Don Faul, CEO of CrossFit. Don has a fascinating background where he’s been able to find success in environments as different...

From kickoffs to retros and Slack channels — Stripe's documentation best practices with Brie Wolfson

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Brie Wolfson.  Brie spent nearly 5 years at Stripe, where she worked on bizops and launched Stripe Press, followed by a stint ...

Why comms deserves its own spot on the exec team — Aaron Zamost’s lessons from Square

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Aaron Zamost. After a comms career at Google, Aaron joined Square in 2011 to lead corporate communications. He went on to join ...

What founders need to know about acquisitions: Shopify’s Daniel Debow on M&A lessons from selling three startups

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Daniel Debow, a VP of Product for Demand at Shopify.  Daniel is a three-time founder and a seasoned M&A pro. Daniel oversaw the p...

How to build your culture like a product — Lessons from Anna Binder, Asana’s Head of People

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest is Anna Binder, Head of People at Asana. We go back to the earliest days when Anna first took on the role, starting with how she prioritize...

How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 10 years at Greenhouse

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford, CTO of Greenhouse, an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform.  Mike has a uniq...

Founders: Here’s how to get your sales pitch in ship-shape — Peter Kazanjy

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest is Peter Kazanjy, co-founder of Atrium and author of “Founding Sales: The Early Stage Go-to-Market Handbook.” As an early-stage founder...