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Welcome to In Depth, a podcast from The First Round Review that’s dedicated to surfacing the tactical advice founders and startup leaders need to grow their teams, their companies and themselves.

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The fastest way to learn is to run two competing bets | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)

August 27, 2026

Brett Berson (0:05)

I think you have such an interesting, given your set of experiences, likely have an interesting point of view on building teams and technology through these different points in the last 30 years. If you think about the role as there's the people and direction you're setting, it's like one hat, and there are many…

I'm really curious when you think about engineering leadership in Internet, mobile, cloud, AI. What does it mean on any part of those S-curves to be leading, managing, setting direction, particularly over the last few years where it feels like it's never been harder to orient in technology?

Jay Parikh (0:54)

It's never as clean in the inside as it looks from the outside.

I always joke about from everybody thinks is like, oh, you built Facebook. I was like, trust me, the first few years, you didn't want to look at a curtain. Right. It was just the brute force that we had there. But again, it comes back to the people. It's like, I don't think of it just as people. I think about all of…

Brett Berson (2:22)

So maybe building on that, how do you define excellence in engineering leadership?

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