First Round is a deck of 40 thoughtfully written conversation starters from For The Firsts.

Over the last few years of building our community, we noticed something. When you open with a real question instead of "what do you do for work?", you can create a truly special moment.

So we started collecting the questions that did that best, the ones that moved people past small talk and into something real. And that process led us to this: First Round.

• 40 cards, 40 questions: 40 better ways to start your next conversation
• 4 categories: Career, Community, Identity, and Reframing Failure
• Human-tested: Each prompt was tested at our events, across dozens of conversations, before it earned its place in the deck
• Human-written: None of these were written by AI. Each prompt was hand-written by our team

The best conversations start with a question nobody saw coming.