First Round Partner Todd Jackson interviews startup founders about the most pivotal moments on their path to product-market fit.
Before joining First Round, Todd helped build now-familiar products like Gmail’s user interface, Facebook’s Newsfeed, Twitter’s timeline and Dropbox’s bottom-up revenue engine.
- Replit’s Path to Product-Market Fit—The $1 Billion Side Project
- Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them
- Gong’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Why This $7B Company Still Works With Design Partners
- Clay’s Path to Product-Market Fit — A 7-Year 'Overnight Success'
- 20 Lessons From 20 Different Paths to Product-Market Fit — Advice for Founders, From Founders
- GOAT’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Fake Sneaker Sparked a $4B Idea
- Vercel’s Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-Dollar Business
- Pilot’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Three-Peat Founders on Picking the Right Team and the Right Market
- Shippo’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The Upside of Being Industry Outsiders
- Live Tinted’s Path to Product Market Fit — How to Build a Loyal and Passionate Community Before You Even Have a Brand
- Merge’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The Importance of Founder-led Sales (Even for a Self-Serve Product)
- Vanta's Path to Product-Market Fit — Solve the Customer’s Problem, Then Write Code
- Productboard’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Building a Unicorn Company with Lean Startup Principles
- Material Security’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Find Your Winning Idea by Selling Products That Don’t Exist Yet
- WorkOS’ Path to Product-Market Fit — Why Your ‘Bad’ Idea Might Actually Be the Best One
- Zūm’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How The Student Transportation Company Found Product-Market Fit Twice
- Labelbox's Path to PMF: Founders Need to be Contrarian and Right — Here's How
- Alma’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How to Pivot and Succeed as a Solo Non-Technical Founder
- Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How the Co-Founders Validated Their Idea with 100 Customer Conversations
- The Rounds’ Path to Product-Market Fit: Accelerating the Eco-Friendly Delivery Startup through Gut Intuition
- Webflow’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons on Creating a Market with Rigorous Customer Empathy
- Binti’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons in Immersive User Research
- X1's Path to Product-Market Fit — How the Consumer Credit Card Company Pulled off a Pandemic Pivot
- Retool’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons for Getting to 100 Happy Customers, Faster
- Maven's Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons for Leveraging Community in the Early Days