
Jacob Effron
@jacobeffron
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Managing Director @redpoint supporting @AbridgeHQ @ideogram_ai @tryramp @poolsideai @AcuityMD @scribehow @wearelegora @getgarner / AI pod: Unsupervised Learning
Joined March 2011
New Unsupervised Learning with Google AI researchers @NoamShazeer and @jack_w_rae on:. - Scaling test-time compute. - The power of the Mom eval. - The pace of Open Source / DeepSeek. - How AI research is where chemistry was in the 15th century. - Reactions to Ilya on how
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New Unsupervised Learning with @pxd (former VP Consumer at OpenAI, current Felicis partner) on AI product strategy including: . - New pricing models for AI products . - How evals are becoming the new product specs . - The "AI under your fingernails" test for founders
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New Unsupervised Learning with @joshim5 (@chaidiscovery) on how AI x drug discovery is starting to inflect and: . - The 3 waves of AI biotech. - How AI models think differently than chemists. - Building "Photoshop for molecules" . - Deciding what to open source
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RT @AbridgeHQ: ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ด๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ-๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ. Following the laโฆ.
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RT @nikillinit: me and @jacobeffron had an excellent conversation with @elliotcohen about lots of stuff (how they're building General Medicโฆ.
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RT @elliotcohen: Thanks to @jacobeffron and @nikillinit for inviting me on Vital Signs this week. Itโs fun to catch up with friends and greโฆ.
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Fun Vital Signs with PillPack/General Medicine co-founder @elliotcohen and @nikillinit on: . - Lessons from PillPack and Amazon. - Why consumers are smarter than healthcare thinks. - Building an effective front door to healthcare. - Why doctor quality is context-dependent.
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RT @ideogram_ai: Introducing Ideogram Character -- the first character consistency model that works with just one reference image. Now avaiโฆ.
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RT @jasonlk: Sign up!! SaaStr WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY this week: @Redpoint's AI Investment Playbook! with Managing Director @jacobeffron . 1โฃTheโฆ.
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What are the new table-stakes AI features for SaaS?. When mobile first emerged, most apps were just wrappers around desktop features, until a new generation of products were built natively for mobile habits, constraints, and capabilities. On Unsupervised Learning @Sirupsen told
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New Unsupervised Learning with @hausman_k & @DannyDriess (@physical_int) on building generalist robotics foundation models and: . - Whatโs next in AI x robotics. - Biggest outstanding questions. - How they 10xโd model training speed. - Open sourcing ฯ 0 . - Breakthroughs
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RT @AbridgeHQ: Abridge raises $300M Series E funding round led by @a16z, and joined by @khoslaventures to pioneer a new paradigm of care wiโฆ.
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New Unsupervised Learning with @istoica05 Co-Founder @databricks, @anyscalecompute, and @lmarena_ai - and special guest host @_RobToews on:. - Why Ion and the team turned a research project into the company LMArena. - Why evaluating LLMs is so much harder than it looks. - Why
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RT @Redpoint: The Redpoint InfraRed 100 is now live!. This list honors 100 infrastructure innovators who are transforming how businesses scโฆ.
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New Unsupervised Learning with @mercor_ai CEO @BrendanFoody and @patrickachase on:. - Why most knowledge workers will be primarily creating evals in the future . - How AI is already outperforming humans in hiring. - The meeting with xAI that changed Mercorโs trajectory. - AI
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Honored to be on the 2025 Midas Brink List with such a great group - very thankful to the founders, teams and colleagues who make this job so incredible!.
Spotlighting Ventureโs Rising Stars: The 2025 Forbes Midas Brink List #ForbesMidas.
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Really fun having @MaxJunestrand (CEO of our portfolio company @WeAreLegora) on Unsupervised Learning with @loganbartlett fresh off announcing their $80M Series B last week. Working with Max and the Legora team has been an absolute blast and I think folks will really enjoy Max's
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RT @_sholtodouglas: Extremely fun conversation - we talked a lot about what the next few years might look like, what kinds of long runningโฆ.
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