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Talk to customers until you're sick of hearing the same thing
Lattice founder Jack Altman explains why there's no replacement for talking to dozens and dozens of customers when validating an early idea on the path to product-market fit. Learn more about First Round's PMF Method: https://pmf.firstround.com/
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
May Habib is the co-founder and CEO of Writer, a full-stack generative AI platform built for enterprises. The model is trained on a customer’s own data to create content that is consistent with their brand style and voice. Writer recently raised $100M at a valuation of around
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, an online platform designed for collaborative coding in multiple programming languages. Replit boasts over 30m users, has secured $200M in venture funding, and was recently valued at $1.2B. Before Replit, Amjad was a Software Engineer at Facebook, and a
Steve Blank on what second-time founders get wrong
Find the full episode with Steve Blank here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S0P0IbwOIE On the In Depth podcast, host Brett Berson interviews guests from across the startup ecosystem to go deeper on the advice startup leaders need to grow their teams, their companies and themselves. Subscribe here: https:
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Jack Krawczyk is a Senior Director of Product at Google, building Bard. Bard is Google’s collaborative, conversational, and experimental AI tool that’s bridging the gap between humans and bots, while addressing ethical considerations around AI. After joining the project in 2020, Jack helped ship Bard in less than
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
Wade Foster is the Co-founder & CEO at Zapier, a platform for building workflow automations without a developer. Zapier was started during 2011 in Columbia, Missouri, and by 2021, it was valued at $5b, having only raised $1.3m. Prior to founding Zapier, Wade had just two professional jobs,
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)
Laura Behrens Wu is the Founder & CEO at Shippo, a company that has raised $100m+ and was last valued at $1b in 2021. Shippo provides an API and dashboard that makes shipping easy for e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms. Prior to starting Shippo, Laura graduated from Harvard University,
Essential questions for your weekly 1:1s
🎙️Find the full episode with Anique Drumright, Chief Operating Officer of Loom, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBIIKNEp45g&t=1s — On the In Depth podcast, host Brett Berson interviews guests from across the startup ecosystem to go deeper on the advice startup leaders need to grow their