Brett Berson
Host/Partner at In Depth (Podcast)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
firstround.com | Todd Jackson |Brett Berson
Ever since our founding in 2004, we’ve been laser-focused on investing in pre-product-market fit companies very early in their lifespan. We’ve since had the privilege of partnering with generational companies in vastly different spaces — like Looker transforming data, Uber shaping modern transportation, Roblox expanding the gaming universe, Notion bringing a fresh take to productivity and collaboration, and Mirror tackling virtual fitness (just to name a few).
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Oct 24, 2023 |
firstround.com | Brett Berson |Emily Stanford
Back in 2018, we set out on a little experiment. We wanted to bring together talented startup builders who were keen on diving deeper into angel investing — those who hoped to both sharpen their skills and escape the “going it alone” feeling by joining an intimate cohort of like-minded peers.
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From reluctant founder to $100M+ ARR: @jthandy never wanted to start a startup, then created a data tool for himself that 50,000 teams now use weekly. Often the path to product market fit breaks all the rules.
Nearly a decade before it became a $4.2B software business, @dbt_labs got its start as a two-man Philly-based consulting shop. @jthandy never set out to sell software. He originally built the data build tool, or dbt, as an internal prototype to help with his consulting work. He https://t.co/QWZ0Nli5zj
From a @firstround company’s monthly update: “By leveraging LLMs, our support team went from overwhelmed and underwater to having nothing to do within one month of automation. We think we can repeat this across every part of the business in Q2.”
Jon and Jeff are type of founders we’re obsessed with finding: they move insanely fast, they’ve gone unseasonably deep on this problem, they’re learn-it-alls, and they just want to build the most incredible products for their customers. We feel lucky to be their partner.
I've worked with many companies in all my years @firstround, but I can't remember seeing one that has grown revenue since the day we invested as quickly as Assort Health has. @_JonWang & @JeffLiu1626585 set out to build an AI-powered voice agent for healthcare with a simple but https://t.co/496JzNXjus