Firsthand: How I Built a Brand with Heart at Lovable

At previous jobs I had to slow myself down to ask what the committee thought. Not at Lovable. I joined as the first designer and fourth employee — and Lovable's culture of intense ownership trusted me to build a brand by following my own instincts, as a design team of one.

Firsthand: Six Years at Vanta, My Reinvention is the Only Constant

I joined as the first product marketer back when the website was just a llama and a "request a demo" button. Six years later, Vanta is a $4.15B company, and I'm CMO. Here's how I've reinvented myself alongside the company.

Podcast

How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)

In this episode of In Depth, Brett sits down with Jon Noronha, co-founder and CPO of Gamma, the AI-native presentation platform used by more than 100 million people. In this conversation, he walks through Gamma’s distinct eras of product-market fit: from a pre-AI struggle with

Podcast

How Supabase became the essential infrastructure for the AI era | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)

In this episode of In Depth, Brett sits down with Paul Copplestone, co-founder and CEO of Supabase, the open-source Postgres platform now serving more than seven million developers. Before Supabase, Paul launched a Thumbtack-style marketplace in Southeast Asia and co-founded an office-management startup called Nimbus,

Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company

I joined Applied Intuition as a new-grad engineer back in early 2019, when it was just a handful of us working above a bar on Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale. Today I'm Deputy CTO of the company (that now has over 1,000 engineers). Here's why I've stayed all these years.

PR & Marketing

“AI-Powered” Isn’t a Position

A playbook for building a distinctive brand when too many AI products sound the same, look the same and have the same positioning.

Firsthand: How I Bet On Clay (And It Bet On Me)

I joined Clay as one of its earliest employees and a reluctant marketing hire. This is how, over the last three years, we built a role around my strengths as a storyteller, scaled past $100M ARR, and created a brand that startups study.

Podcast

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

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-native security platform that just emerged from stealth with $70M in combined seed and Series A funding.

Reluctantly Influential: Inside Lenny Rachitsky’s Demandingly Chill Life

With millions of subscribers across platforms, Lenny Rachitsky is one of the most prolific people in tech media. But what drives him — and what keeps him up at night — is a story most people don’t know.

Podcast

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

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

Product

Guideline's Path to Product-Market Fit — The Early Decisions That Powered Its Acquisition by Gusto

Ten years after shaking up the retirement fund industry for SMBs, Guideline has been acquired by Gusto. Here, co-founder Kevin Busque shares the early-stage decisions and pivots that put the startup on the path to success.

Product

Serval's Path to Product-Market Fit — Win Enterprise Buyers by Treating Them Like Consumers

Notes from an AI founder taking a swing at a hundred-billion-dollar incumbent.