What it's like working at @maticrobots: Build your own desk, then start making robots.
@maticrobots Watch our full tour of Matic's HQ: youtube.com/watch?v=HKbc_h…
Our latest episode of "In Office" with @maticrobots:
Mehul@mehul·This is where the Matic happens I took @firstround on a tour of our HQ > Matic-themed movie posters > Furniture from Facebook Marketplace > A brand-new production line
When what’s possible with AI feels more temptingly expansive by the day, how do you figure out what you should do — without getting distracted by what you can do? Mckenzie Lock set out to answer that question at Netflix, where she led an internal overhaul that brought AI to core creative and production workflows. In this essay, she shares practical tips for figuring out your own “should” with AI: t.co/97QEJP2nPT
Despite billboards and headlines claiming otherwise, demand for BDRs and AEs is going up. But finding truly excellent sellers to fill these roles is hard. We think some of the best talent isn't in sales — yet. We're launching Sales Combine to bring in a new generation of sellers who may not have the "right" resumes, offering free training and direct intros to companies like @NotionHQ, @p0, @fal, @togethercompute, @reductoai and more. t.co/fHUIx12rCz
AI is making the mechanics of sales easier, but being exceptional at the craft matters more than ever. In a new essay, we break down how to actually get good at it, sharing a preview of the training we'll cover in Sales Combine, our new program to build the next generation of sellers: t.co/ujosK7ZXLA
The mechanics of sales may be automated away, but that was never the hard part. We want to find and train the next generation of sellers who excel at the uniquely human craft of sales (and aggressively use AI for all the rest), so we’re launching Sales Combine. Spend two days in SF for FREE training with extremely experienced sales leaders, and then we’ll introduce you directly to companies like @NotionHQ, @fal, @togethercompute, @p0, @reductoai, @Gumloop, @clay, & many others that are hiring new sellers. Apply by 10/3: t.co/7L1HiNijd7
The first logo @nadonomy designed for Lovable wasn't built to scale with a viral launch. So he took it upon himself to create one that could endure decades: review.firstround.com/firsthand-lova…
Lovable@Lovable·Explorations with our design team
Lovable's founding designer @nadonomy on how working with @antonosika and @FabianHedin let him reset his internal clock speed: review.firstround.com/firsthand-lova…
Lovable’s internal clock ticks fast, set by the pace of its founders. @nadonomy wrote about how he keeps up, and the culture of intense ownership and speed that gave him the license to build a brand as a design team of one: review.firstround.com/firsthand-lova…
Sarah Scharf (@oatmealaday) wrote about the culture at @TrustVanta that made her run from first PMM to CMO possible: review.firstround.com/vanta-firsthan…
The story behind @TrustVanta's viral billboard: review.firstround.com/vanta-firsthan…
Christina Cacioppo@christinacaci·I wouldn’t have guessed, but the jokes just get better as a startup grows.
Vanta’s new CMO is the creative mind behind their viral “Compliance that doesn’t SOC 2 much” billboard. Sarah Scharf (@oatmealaday) joined as the first product marketer back in 2020. In six years, she’s held many roles at the company, moving up, down and sideways across the marketing org. Today, she becomes CMO. For the latest essay in our “Firsthand” series, she writes about the culture at @TrustVanta that’s made her many reinventions possible.
@oatmealaday Read here: review.firstround.com/vanta-firsthan…
.@K2SpaceCo doesn't make small bets. x.com/KaranKunjur/st…
Watch the ten-minute documentary about how K2 launched one of the highest-power spacecraft ever built: youtube.com/watch?v=7_cS3R… Congrats to @KaranKunjur, @neelkunjur and the whole K2 team!
The NASA decadal is a report that outlines the highest scientific priorities for the next decade. When brothers @KaranKunjur and @neelkunjur were reading it, they wondered why no one was building the spacecraft necessary to actually achieve these missions. So they founded @K2SpaceCo. The entire satellite industry was building smaller satellites. K2 went bigger. With more size comes more power, and more power means more capability to run experiments and missions that weren’t doable on smaller satellites. In March, they launched Gravitas — one of the highest-powered spacecraft ever built. This is the story of how K2 is making the impossible, possible.
There’s no single archetype of someone who works at @AppliedInt. But most fall into one of three buckets: The domain specialists (like AV simulation PhDs), new talent (there’s always a big cohort of recent grads) and ex-founder or CTO types (they infuse the “startup” energy, even
@AppliedInt Full essay here: review.firstround.com/firsthand-appl…
Applied Intuition has a practice called the culture table. Co-founders @qasar and Peter Ludwig, plus a few other leads (specifically, not managers) meet regularly to make sure manager bloat isn’t creeping in as the headcount has scaled past 1,000. Every six months, ICs score
@qasar Read here: review.firstround.com/firsthand-appl…
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…
