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Peter is a Product Lead at Roblox. He cares about crafting quality products with customers and has done so at Meta, Twitch, Reddit, and Roblox. He writes about AI, product, and creators via his newsletter read by 90,000+ tech professionals.

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Chris is a repeat founder, he was the CEO of Laskie (acquired by X), Co-founder of Interviewed (acquired by Indeed in 2017), COO of 42Floors (acquired by Knotel), managed business development for Zillow (NAS $ZG), RentJuice (acquired by Zillow in 2012).

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Devin is currently at The Browser Company working on Growth, but before that was the co-founder and CEO of Mad Realities, an entertainment studio aiming to create a “participatory reality TV network” where audiences can influence content outcomes. She also founded NYU Girls Roasting Tech Guys, a pandemic-era Clubhouse dating show that had everyone on the edge of their seats.

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Amanda joined Figma in 2018 when it was $1M ARR and built out the global go-to-market (sales, marketing, support) organization. Prior to Figma she joined Zendesk as employee #13 and built and led various marketing and sales teams along with playing a key role in the IPO process. Her expertise includes PLG+Enterprise strategy, pricing and packaging, as well as two runs with learning what it takes to scale from $1->$500M.

In this episode we talk about Amanda’s career as an early employee at Zendesk, scaling at Figma, starting off in tech, managing a global team, and much more.

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Camille Ricketts is Partner & Head of Marketing at XYZ Venture Capital, where she invests in product-led growth companies, creator tools, and more. Prior, she was the first marketing hire at Notion, where she helped build out its global brand, strategy, and team. With deep roots in content marketing in particular, she was the first Editor of First Round Review for First Round Capital, managed communications for Tesla Motors, and started as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She has her BA in history, but truly majored in The Stanford Daily.Thank you to our sponsor Notion. Get 6 months free of Notion with unlimited AI when you apply at notion.com/startups, select next play in the drop-down partner list and enter code nextplay at the end of the form.

In this episode we talk about:

* 2:27 - serendipitous moments at First Round lead to joining Notion as first marketing leader

* 3:50 - interview process for Notion in the early days

* 6:50 - goal setting in marketing at First Round vs Notion

* 8:00 - learning about patience at Notion

* 11:25 - highlights from the Notion journey

* 15:00 - the life story tradition at Notion

* 16:24 - what leaving Notion was like to go off and explore

* 19:17 - setting your team up for success when leaving a company

* 21:30 - taking time off to be present, travel, angel invest

* 24:01 - going back to work, ways to approach exploring new opportunities

* 28:15 - from journalism scoops to joining Tesla early

* 35:30 - how magical serendipity can be in your career

* 37:00 - going from marketing to venture capital as an investor at XYZ

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Logan applied for a role at OpenAI, on LinkedIn, before they had even launched ChatGPT, and got the job as the first developer relations leader. He’s worked at NASA, Apple, and the Julia Language. Most recently, he left his role at OpenAI to lead product at Google AI Studio. In this episode we dive into his journey breaking into tech, becoming a thought leader in AI, and his advice for anyone getting into tech.

Merci is a repeat founder, angel investor, former venture capital investor, and former Head of Growth at Slack. She started her career in tech as a game designer and has worked in product roles at SaaS and consumer companies.

In this episode we talk about* The pros and cons of being a founder* Working in a product function at a high growth company* What the early days of Slack were like* What transitioning from an operator into venture looks like* Why go back to being a founder* How to evaluate career options* and more!

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Michael Karnjanaprakorn is the founder and former CEO of Skillshare and Otis (acquired by Public). Before starting companies, he was an early employee at Behance (acquired by Adobe) and Hot Potato (acquired by Facebook). Now, he's exploring new ideas, creating content, and enjoying his sabbatical.

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In this episode we talk about

* Treating yourself like a startup and upgrading your own operating system* Lifestyle design, aligning how one spends their time, energy, and money with their career choices.* How boredom can be beneficial for self-reflection and personal growth.* Becoming a better writer.* and much more

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Nikunj Kothari shares his journey going from PM at LinkedIn, to leading growth at Opendoor, joining Meter as product lead, and most recently becoming an investor at Khosla.

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Deedy Das is a principal at Menlo Ventures, previously was on the founding team of Glean ($2.2B valuation today), and had various technical roles at Facebook and Google. He’s also a prolific tweeter, on tech, immigration, India, fitness and search.

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