He doesn't believe in stealth mode (and talked about Guideline to anyone who'd listen) #founder

The Rotation Program That Keeps This Startup’s Engineers Learning — and Not Leaving

Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.

0-$5M: How to Nail Founder-Led Sales

First Round partner Meka Asonye sits down with founders and first sales hires to unpack 6 specific tactics for learning to embrace founder-led sales instead of avoiding it.

While everyone built for gaming, Braze stayed broad and built for a market that didn't exist (yet)

Introducing 0-$5M

First Round Partner Meka Asonye introduces 0-$5M, a new go-to-market series on First Round Review.

Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition

Bill Magnuson is the co-founder and CEO at Braze, along with Kevin Wang, who joined as employee #8 and serves as the CPO. The two MIT graduates have built Braze into a publicly listed customer engagement platform with a $4.4B market cap. In 2023, Braze surpassed $500M in

EvolutionIQ Just Got Acquired for $730M — Here's Their Playbook For Building an Enduring AI Business

We sat down with the founding team for the inside story of one of the first major vertical AI exits.

Building a self-serve #product 101: Nail demand, conversion, value and monetization, in that order

Varun Anand breaks down how #clay's product-led growth clicked into gear. “1) You need demand coming in, 2) you need to convert them on the website, 3) you need them to get quick value from the product, and 4) you need them to pay you money.”

This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineering Leaders Back into Frontline Developers

David Loftesness has deftly cycled between management and IC roles throughout his career. Here, he lays out a plan to help engineering leaders make a smooth transition back into the technical weeds.

The GTM Inflection Points That Powered Clay to a $1B+ Valuation

How do you create a go-to-market machine that’s able to turbocharge (and then sustain) revenue growth? Clay co-founder Varun Anand shares the biggest lessons from the company's success, with growth advice for both product-led and sales-led startups.

How to Make Your Product Idea Go Viral Inside Your Company: Lessons from Figma Slides

How Figma Slides founding PM Mihika Kapoor transformed a hackathon project into one of Figma's most anticipated launches.

The 30 Best Pieces of Company Building Advice We Heard in 2024

For the 12th year in a row, we rounded up 30 timeless company-building insights we published from the year before.