Episodes: 186
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 30.6k subscribers
Instagram: 13.0k followers
Page updated: Nov 4, 2026 · How we check this data
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Brett Berson - Partner at First Round, focused on helping founders and startup leaders build stronger companies and teams.
Jay Parikh - Engineering Leadership, Scaling Organizations, Company Culture, Operating Through Rapid Growth, Strategic Bets, And Maintaining Organizational Speed.
Lindsey Scrase - Enterprise Expansion, Startup Operations, Sales Compensation, The Transition From CRO To COO, Decision-making, And Applying Artificial Intelligence To Go-to-market Teams.
Jon Noronha - Product-market Fit, Artificial Intelligence Pivots, Onboarding, Horizontal Versus Vertical Products, Monetization, Pricing, And Enterprise Expansion.
Eric Sager - Scaling Operations, Organizational Resilience, Go-to-market Design, Leadership During Turbulent Periods, Capacity Planning, And Team Culture.
Paul Copplestone - Product-market Fit, Open-source Growth, Developer Experience, Product-led Sales, Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure, Fundraising, And Distributed-team Management.
Competing with OpenAI and Meta for your inbox | Jean-Denis Greze (Town Co-founder & CEO)
October 28, 2026
In this episode of In Depth, Todd sits down with Jean-Denis Greze, co-founder and CEO of Town, the AI work assistant that gives every employee their own agent. Before Town, Jean-Denis spent seven years as CTO of Plaid and led engineering teams at Dropbox, where he and Todd first worked together. In this conversation, they dive into what it takes to build in tech's hottest category while competing with Microsoft, Google and the frontier labs, why Town bet on work agents over personal agents, a...
The fastest way to learn is to run two competing bets | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
August 27, 2026
In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Jay spent over a decade as Facebook's global head of engineering, scaling the company from a few hundred engineers to billions of users, then ran the cybersecurity company Lacework as CEO through its acquisition by Fortinet. In this conversation, he breaks down the five ingredients of great engineering leadership, discusses why he'd rather ru...
What startups get wrong about enterprise | Lindsey Scrase (COO, Checkr)
July 30, 2026
In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Lindsey Scrase, COO of Checkr. Before joining Checkr as CRO and later stepping into the COO seat, Lindsey spent nearly a decade at Google Cloud as global managing director for SMB, mid-market, and startups. In this conversation, she breaks down why moving upmarket into enterprise trips up so many startups looking to scale, how Checkr rebuilt its sales compensation model to keep pace with growth, and where AI is already reshapin...
Do Small Business Like a Big Boss Podcast · Medium booking difficulty · 1,000 - 10,000 listeners
Catalytic Leadership · Medium booking difficulty · 1,000 - 10,000 listeners
Building Billions with Brandon Dawson · High booking difficulty · 1,000 - 10,000 listeners
Build It. They'll Come. · Medium booking difficulty · 1,000 - 10,000 listeners
The Unlock with Oliver Bruce · Medium booking difficulty · 1,000 - 10,000 listeners
In Depth is hosted by Brett Berson. Its publicly listed email is review@firstround.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.
The publicly listed email for In Depth: review@firstround.com.
Podseeker estimates In Depth reaches 1,000 to 10,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.
In Depth typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Founders and senior executives from high-growth technology companies with firsthand experience building products, scaling teams, achieving product-market fit, or leading major operational and go-to-market transformations. Common among recent guests: Founded or led a rapidly scaling technology company; Held senior operating, product, engineering, sales, or revenue leadership roles at prominent technology companies; Built or transformed teams and business functions through significant growth. Recent guests include Jay Parikh, Lindsey Scrase, and Jon Noronha.
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