A new podcast from First Round: How the top 0.001% of scaleup execs operate

• First Round launches “Executive Function” podcast — C-suite interviews.
  • Targets hypergrowth operators; Brett Berson interviewing.
• First guest: Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, COO Vercel, ex-Stripe CRB.
• Top execs “work themselves out of a job every couple months.”
  • Master a task, then fully delegate it; repeat.
• Manager-of-managers shift: stop being the super IC.
  • Empower others or become the bottleneck.
• John Collison feedback style: brutal. “Dead to you” if underperforming.
• Upcoming: ex-Stripe CTO, Rippling VP Design, Vanta CRO, Harvey COO, Figma CMO.

First Round Capital (Brett Berson, interviewer) · 2026-02-05 · Read on review.firstround.com