In Depth

Brett Berson

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Booking Overview

In Depth is a tactical founder/operator podcast that helps startup leaders build great teams and improve core leadership functions like hiring, management, product strategy, and revenue execution. Booking value is high if your story is grounded in real operating decisions and playbooks at scale (often from senior executive roles).

Metrics

Episodes: 180

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 27.7k subscribers

Instagram: 13.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Brett Berson - Partner at First Round; hosts In Depth and focuses on surfacing tactical advice founders and startup leaders need to grow their teams, companies, and themselves.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior startup or public-company executives (C-suite or near-C-suite), especially those who have built functions from early stage to scale (GTM, product, finance/ops) and can share concrete operating frameworks and hiring/process decisions.
Required Achievements:  
Scaled teams and operating functions at high-growth companies, Led executive roles through major transitions (e.g., acquisitions, IPO readiness), Built or transformed GTM/product/finance processes and published actionable frameworks (often via recognized operator platforms)

Recent Guest Discussions

Graham Moreno - Enterprise Sales Process Design; Ai-era Gtm; Enablement And Hiring; In-person Rollout; Funnel Instrumentation; Commission Structure

Praveer Melwani - Career Path From Biz Ops To Cfo; Acting Like A Public Company; Ai-driven Capital Allocation; Building Internal Peer Network; Capital Allocation And Risk

Diya Jolly - Product Leadership And Roadmap Philosophy; Delegation Frameworks; Ambition-setting; Incentives And Org Politics; AI Implications For Product; Leadership Time Allocation

Recent Topics

Startups, Leadership, Hiring, Management, Go To Market

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
In Depth
:

How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)

June 04, 2026

In today's conversation, Brett sits down with CMO of Figma, Sheila Joglekar Vashee. Previously the second marketing hire at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company past $1 billion in revenue, she now leads marketing at Figma fresh off its IPO. In an industry that has spent a decade trying to turn marketing into something closer to hedge fund trading, Sheila argues the art was always the point — we just stopped talking about it. She unpacks how to run marketing as a portfolio of moonshots,...

Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)

May 21, 2026

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Graham Moreno, Head of GTM at Parallel Web Systems. Before Parallel, Graham scaled Windsurf's GTM organization from three sellers to seventy-five in under a year, served as President through the Cognition acquisition, and earlier built and led enterprise sales teams at Grafana Labs and MongoDB. In this conversation, he unpacks why the AI-era backlash against structured enterprise sales misreads the data, how to design a process...

Why founders should bet on first-time executives | Praveer Melwani (CFO, Figma)

May 14, 2026

In this latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Praveer Melwani, CFO at Figma. Praveer joined Figma in 2017 as the company's first business operations and finance hire—when the team was around 30 people and not yet charging for the product—and stepped into the CFO seat in 2022, helping to lead the company’s IPO in 2025. In today’s conversation, Praveer breaks down the step functions that took him from IC to CFO, why Figma started acting like a public company three years bef...

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