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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We just raised our $75M Series C led by @stepstonegroup, making @ScribeHow a $1.3B unicorn. But that’s not the part I’m most proud of. The funding isn’t the story — what we DO with it is. I set out to change how the world actually works. I started Scribe with one belief:
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@SutterHealth Check out the full episode: YouTube: https://t.co/tm3p343rgN Spotify: https://t.co/Mz7AjKHXak Apple:
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Podcast Episode · Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan · 11/07/2025 · 45m
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On our latest Vital Signs, I sat down with Warner Thomas, CEO of @SutterHealth, one of the largest health systems in America. We explored how major health systems are navigating AI adoption, and the evolving healthcare landscape. We hit on: - Sutter's ambulatory expansion -
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@billpeeb Check out the full episode on Unsupervised Learning⬇️ Spotify: https://t.co/Z18c2ang3f Apple: https://t.co/juKtEajipC YouTube:
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One of my favorite parts of talking with the Sora team: @billpeeb on how this is just the start of exponential improvements in video models and his prediction that they'll drive novel discoveries in classical physics by early 2028
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Was really special to do the first long form interview with the Sora team on Unsupervised Learning. I sat down with @billpeeb, @turtlesoupy and @rohanjamin to discuss building the first big AI-native social network, getting such a massive amount of users to create and continuing
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$150M Series C. $1.8B valuation. One mission: to empower every lawyer with world-class AI. We build AI with the people who use it. Every success at Legora starts with collaboration: co-developing, iterating, and scaling technology hand in hand with our customers.
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Legora is a special company. They're growing insanely fast with customers that absolutely love the product. A huge congratulations to the team on this milestone. Check out their open roles ( https://t.co/C8xgbWilUQ) to join this 🚀
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Join our team in rethinking legal work. Explore career opportunities at Legora. We are challenging the status quo and having a great time doing it. We believe that life is too short to not accomplish...
Huge day for @WeAreLegora today! We’ve raised a $150M Series C at a $1.8B valuation. Thank you @BessemerVP , @ICONIQCapital , @generalcatalyst , @Redpoint , @benchmark , and @ycombinator – and to all of our clients: this celebration is as much yours as it is ours.
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Hit on a bunch of fun topics in our second "AI Roundup" episode with @_RobToews (AI investor at Radical) and @arimorcos (Co-Founder/CEO of Datology): - Reactions to Karpathy's claim on agents being overhyped - Are we in a bubble? - Do you need to be in SF to build an AI
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New Vital Signs with @nikillinit and Viren Shetty, Vice Chairman of @NarayanaHealth on: - How extreme standardization and physician specialization drive down costs - Lessons for the rest of the world - Where AI actually works Some great insights on building
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🎧Listen Here: Spotify: https://t.co/4NQT3E9Gzh Apple: https://t.co/ZCzBSKieSh YouTube:
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With AI talent wars, lots of RL Environment companies being started, high foundation model valuations, and Google's comeback, it's been a wild couple of months in AI. We're introducing a new format at Unsupervised Learning discussing these topical questions alongside our
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This was quite a surprising part of my interview with Tri on Unsupervised Learning and reinforces that many of the people who benefit most from models are at the cutting edges of their fields
Tri Dao says Claude Code makes him 1.5x more productive and that it's quite helpful at writing Triton kernels
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New Unsupervised Learning with the team behind Nano Banana @nbrichtova and @oliver_wang2 on: - The technical recipe behind Nano Banana's success and why even Google was surprised by adoption - How language model improvements directly translate to better image generation -
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🔥 Live at #AIHorizonsPgh 🔥 Extraordinary discussion - Special Deployment Fireside: "Transforming Healthcare with AI" with special guests - @ShivdevRao - MD, CEO & Founder, @AbridgeHQ - @jacobeffron - Managing Director, @Redpoint Ventures #AIDeployed #HealthcareAI #AIAvenue
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New Unsupervised Learning with @tri_dao (Chief Scientist at @togethercompute) on: - Why Nvidia's 90% market dominance will fragment as AI workloads specialize into distinct categories - How Claude Code made him 1.5x more productive kernel development work - The three
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🚀 Big news at @tryaugie (Augment) : we’ve raised an $85M Series A, bringing total funding to $110M in just 5 months. 🧚 Why? To supercharge Augie—the most trusted AI teammate for logistics. 📈 Augie is already doubling operator productivity across teams managing $35B+ in
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Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics
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The new funding, which was led by Redpoint, comes just five months after the startup launched out of stealth with a $25 million seed round.
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@habbott Did I mention Augment is hiring! Check out open roles here:
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Join Augment and be part of a team revolutionizing the logistics industry with AI. Explore our open positions and help us build the next generation of AI technologies for logistics.
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So excited to announce our investment in Augment, the AI productivity platform for logistics. We’re thrilled to partner with @habbott and the amazing team. More on Augment’s compelling vision:
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