Product Linear’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Quality and Craft > Speed and Scale Linear CEO and co-founder Karri Saarinen unpacks the $1.25B company's slow and deliberate path to product-market fit.
Starting Up The Founder’s Guide to Building a V1 of Customer Success A CS leader who has built the function from the ground up shares where founders should start — from how to hire to the most important metrics to track.
Sales 0-$5M: How to Go From Random Wins to Repeatable Revenue When every deal closes differently, how do you build repeatability? First Round Partner Meka Asonye shares proven tactics from founders and revenue leaders who've solved this exact puzzle.
Management Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here's How the Best Startup Leaders Balance Details and Delegation Founders and execs from Apple, Rippling, Carta and more share their strategies for altitude shifting as a manager.
People & Culture Should You “Rent” an Exec for Your Startup? A Fractional COO Weighs In A veteran strategy and ops leader turned fractional COO walks us through why, when and how early-stage founders can tap fractional execs to learn and grow faster.
Product The Art of Evals: How Figma Put People at the Center of Its AI Product Building, testing and validating with human craft and creativity.
Product How to Build for a Market That Doesn’t Exist Yet — Braze’s Path to Product-Market Fit The Braze founding team shares all the early moves they made to lay the path to IPO.
Sales 0-$5M: How to Identify Your ICP — Lessons from Vanta, Clay, Retool How do you spot the wrong customer before they burn your roadmap? First Round Partner Meka Asonye digs into how now-massively successful startups cracked the code.
Starting Up Thinking About Taking the Founder Leap? Here’s How to Prep for the Emotional Gauntlet How to start building your emotional toolkit for the founder journey ahead, with advice from psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt.
Product The Unsung Ingredient in Stripe, Square and Linear’s Success: Taste Tactical advice for weaving craft into your product and operationalizing taste.
Engineering Mastering the Human Side of Engineering: Lessons from Apple, Palantir and Slack Apple engineering leader Michael Lopp gives tactical advice for managers on how to empower individual engineers — and become better leaders themselves.
Product From Weekend Project to Fortune 10 Adoption — Reducto's Path to Product-Market Fit Adit Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Reducto, shares how he closed millions in ARR and a Fortune 10 customer with no sales hires.