
Long before founding Clay, Kareem Amin learned grace under pressure from his mom. One time in high school, he crashed her car. He was scared to tell her. But she just reacted the same way she did any time he came to her with a problem: By being calm and helpful, making him feel
Before she founded @loyalfordogs, @celinehalioua got her love of science from her mom. She didn't consider herself a science-y kid growing up. But after doing middle school science fair projects with her mom (including an assessment of the price-to-value ratio of canned green
Before she founded @pomelocare, @martabralic learned she could do hard things from her mom. Marta’s mom came to the US from Serbia when she was Marta’s age. To support the family, she learned English and programming languages, picking up new skills so she could start an entirely
Long before founding @getserval, @jakeserval grew up watching what it takes to be the best at what you do: His mom was a professional pool player on the Women's Pro Billiards Tour. When he went to bed, she went to go practice — every night. At one of the first tournaments she
Read her essay here: review.firstround.com/firsthand-clay/
When @m1shti signed her offer letter to join @Clay, she closed her laptop in defeat. Three years later, the job she feared regretting is the one she loves. In our new series “Firsthand,” we work in partnership with early employees to tell the inside stories of what it’s like to
Before every episode of @lennysan's podcast, he sends a list of questions to guests meant to spark ideas for their conversation. He's never shared them before. Here they are:
Read our full profile of Rachitsky: review.firstround.com/reluctantly-in…