In Depth
Hosted by Brett and Brett Berson · First Round
5.0from 99 ratings
- 185
- Episodes
- 185
- Transcribed
- 99
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About In Depth
Welcome to In Depth, a podcast from The First Round Review that’s dedicated to surfacing the tactical advice founders and startup leaders need to grow their teams, their companies and themselves. Hosted by Brett Berson, a partner at First Round, In Depth will cover a lot of ground and a wide range of topics, from hiring executives and becoming a better manager, to the importance of storytelling inside of your organization. But every interview will hit the level of tactical depth where the very best advice is found. We hope you’ll join us. Subscribe to “In Depth” now and learn more at firstround.com
- Publisher
- First Round
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 27 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
185 of 185 episodes have a transcript.
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The fastest way to learn is to run two competing bets | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
What startups get wrong about enterprise | Lindsey Scrase (COO, Checkr)
24 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
Inside a recent episode
The fastest way to learn is to run two competing bets | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
Published 27 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But if I had five big bets and two of them really took off, then that was success. And if one was kind of meh and the other two failed, that was like a decent batting average. And then you've also created a culture where people know that as a leader, I am willing to and I want to take risks, right? And so that does, I think, drive a certain level of passion and energy and curiosity and learning in an organization. Because you have to fight, as we talked about earlier, as the organization gets bigger, you get more successful. This reversion to the mean happens, right? And like you get complacent that complacency breeds mediocrity and then people don't want to take risks and we know the rest so having a culture of taking these like big bads and these discontinuous or disruptive projects and curating them and sort of protecting them i think is really important to to try to be ready for what's coming at us next. […]
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- Jay Parikh
- Lindsey Scrase
- Jon Noronha
- Eric Sager
- Paul Copplestone
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- YouTube views
- 3,313,967
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
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- 5.0 / 5
- 99 ratings
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- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 0
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Brett and Brett Berson host the show. Published by First Round.
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