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First Round Review provides practical advice for founders and startup leaders, covering topics such as interview questions, new manager tips, and finding product-market fit.

February 18, 2025  16:07:15
Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.
February 11, 2025  15:50:08
First Round partner Meka Asonye sits down with founders and first sales hires to unpack 6 specific tactics for learning to embrace founder-led sales instead of avoiding it. This is the first installment in our “0-$5M” series.
February 5, 2025  15:35:54
We sat down with the founding team for the inside story of one of the first major vertical AI exits.
January 29, 2025  15:21:27
David Loftesness has deftly cycled between management and IC roles throughout his career. Here, he lays out a plan to help engineering leaders make a smooth transition back into the technical weeds.
January 23, 2025  15:14:55
How do you create a go-to-market machine that’s able to turbocharge (and then sustain) revenue growth? Clay co-founder Varun Anand shares the biggest lessons from the company's success, with growth advice for both product-led and sales-led startups.
January 14, 2025  16:08:04
How Figma Slides founding PM Mihika Kapoor transformed a hackathon project into one of Figma's most anticipated launches.
January 7, 2025  16:21:35
For the 12th year in a row, we rounded up 30 timeless company-building insights we published from the year before.
December 16, 2024  16:32:26
Matt MacInnis, COO of Rippling, shares why most companies slow down as they scale, and his advice for how startup founders and executives can prevent it.
December 10, 2024  16:06:10
Startup founders share their go-to questions for taking a pulse check on everything from product strategy to co-founder relationships to their own decision making.
November 25, 2024  16:40:11
Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore shares his tools for quashing biases in pursuit of the truth at every stage of company building.
October 30, 2024  15:43:49
Casey Winters, the growth expert behind Grubhub, Pinterest & Eventbrite, shares proven strategies for scaling marketplaces from 0 to $1B.
October 16, 2024  15:35:21
Four top execs reveal their annual planning secrets from Notion, Stripe, Vanta, Linear, Linktree and more. From addressing AI to adjusting org charts, this COO, CFO, CPO & CRO share insights so startups at any stage can build effective, realistic plans.
October 8, 2024  14:18:52
Sometimes the signals of product-market fit are so strong, they can no longer be ignored. In the latest installment of our Paths to Product-Market Fit series, Amjad Masad takes us on Replit's unconventional journey from college side project to billion-dollar AI startup.
October 4, 2024  14:27:34
Steve Blank (of Lean Startup and Four Steps to the Epiphany fame) unpacks why innovators and founders should expect fierce battles from incumbents on the path to disruption.
September 26, 2024  15:17:44
The behind-the-scenes story of how Lattice built its marketing strategy from the ground up, as told by its third employee and first marketing hire, Alex Kracov.