In Depth Podcast
1) Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
Chris Degnan was the first sales hire at Snowflake and spent 11 years scaling the company from zero to $3.5 billion in revenue as its CRO, working alongside four different CEOs and learning from each ...Show More
2) Why 90% of CROs will fall behind in the next 2 years | Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta)
Stevie Case is the CRO of Vanta, the trust management platform serving everyone from founders to Fortune 100 CISOs. A former pro-video gamer who stumbled into sales through a mentor's bet, Stevie has ...Show More
3) Figma is not the source of truth | Ryan Lucas (VP of Design, Rippling)
In the second Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Ryan Lucas, VP of Design at Rippling. Before Rippling, Ryan led design at Retool and co-founded multiple startups, bringing a rare founde...Show More
4) Executive Function: Building systems that can make decisions without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
In the first Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Jeanne De Witt Grosser, Chief Operating Officer at Vercel. Before Vercel, Jeanne spent nearly a decade at Stripe, where she built and scal...Show More
5) Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
Anil Varanasi is the co-founder and CEO of Meter, which provides full-stack networking infrastructure as a service for businesses. Since founding Meter with his brother Sunil in 2015, Anil has been pl...Show More
Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
1:14:53 | Dec 10th, 2025
6) How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
Jyoti Bansal is the co-founder and CEO of Harness, the software delivery platform used by thousands of engineering teams, and previously founded AppDynamics, which he led from inception to a multibill...Show More
How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
1:05:17 | Nov 19th, 2025
7) How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
Zack Kanter is the founder and CEO of Stedi, an API-first healthcare clearinghouse. After bootstrapping a wildly profitable auto-parts business, he sold it to tackle "the most complicated problem" he'...Show More
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
1:24:09 | Nov 6th, 2025
8) Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped Serval's AI agents for IT teams | Jake Stauch (Founder and CEO)
Jake is the founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-driven IT automation and service management platform that just raised $47M in Series A funding this week. Before founding Serval, Jake spent over five year...Show More
9) The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
Gorkem Yurtseven is the co-founder and CTO of fal, the generative media platform powering the next wave of image, video, and audio applications. In less than two years, fal has scaled from $2M to over...Show More
10) From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s story | Michael Chime (Co-founder & CEO of Prepared)
Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Prepared, the AI assistant for 911 calls that helps dispatchers capture information faster, translate emergency calls in real time, and deliver lifesaving context ...Show More