Todd Jackson
@tjack
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Partner @firstround. Former VP Product @Dropbox, Product Director @twitter, co-founder @coverscreen, PM @google, @facebook. Amateur golfer and dad.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2009
Big @firstround news today!. We’re launching Product-Market Fit Method (a free intensive 14-week experience for early founders building epic B2B SaaS companies) and publishing the first session on our internal framework for all to read (with benchmarks, Looker's real data, and
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If you're building with agents, check out @blaxelAI — "they've re-architected every layer that slows conventional clouds down. Sandbox environments spin up in < 3 secs, with cold starts from hibernation in milliseconds. One of their customers is running 1B+ secs of agent runtime.
AI Agent startups launch daily. But the incumbent cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc) that startups are building on top of were meant for humans, not billions of autonomous agents. Thats why Im beyond proud to partner w/ @blaxelAI, the “AWS for AI companies”.
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After @tobi’s well-known AI memo, what really changed @Shopify?. @firstround just launched Applied Intelligence, a new publication about how companies are actually using AI in production. Our first story features none other than Shopify. This is the tactical sequel to the memo,
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Congrats to the @getsolidroad team and @lizwessel on the seed announcement today! Their growth and customer love is impressive, all driven by a mission to make every single customer interaction better 🙌.
I cannot understate how excited I am about @getSolidroad announcing their $6.5M seed round (which I was honored to lead @firstround) so I can talk about them publicly! More on their contrarian AI approach in the $400B+ customer service industry & why I frickin love this team 👇
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RT @createwithplay: Huge news — Play has won the Apple Design Award for Innovation!. To be recognized by @Apple — the company whose platfor….
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Huge congrats to Dan, Joon and the entire @createwithplay team — an Apple Design Award is truly a big honor. This team is continuing to push the boundaries on what a design tool should be.
Huge news — Play has won the Apple Design Award for Innovation!. To be recognized by @Apple — the company whose platforms have inspired so much of what we’re building — is an incredible honor. Immensely proud of our incredible team and so grateful to all the designers, teams,
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RT @mgarimella: 📣 We (at are hosting “An Engineer’s Guide to Selling” this Thursday as part of NYC @TechWeek_ w/ t….
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Cool early analysis of two years of YC batches born post-ChatGPT by @seidtweets at @chapterone.
What's actually working for @ycombinator companies since the AI boom?. I wanted to look into the data for a number of reasons:. - We finally have 2 years of batch data since ChatGPT started the AI boom, which gives us some meat to analyze. - YC is always interesting to dig into.
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RT @lizwessel: Very excited that @withdavidai is announcing their Series A, just 6 months after we led their Seed!! Not just that, but they….
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All the greats!.
Building a peer group of other founders is one of the most underrated skills. I met @meyerjosiah and @hagestev through one of @firstround's retreat programs (big shoutout to Emery Rosansky), and we've all stayed in touch ever since. These two will never brag about themselves,
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Jack keeps getting these really amazing guests. This guy @joshk is my personal favorite 😉.
Very excited to share this week's Uncapped episode with @joshk, founder of First Round Capital. They have built one of the most unique and successful venture platforms in the industry. Very few seed stage firms endure for decades, but First Round is as strong as ever after more
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Very rare to add a new app to my main home screen but I’m excited about this one
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I love @reductoai. Such a powerful and well-built product. Enterprises are lining up because it just works. @aditabrm & @raunakdoesdev are the 🐐s! . And props to my partner @lizwessel for her tireless support of the company!.
So proud of @reductoai's $25M Series A led by @benchmark. It’s CRAZY how much progress @aditabrm & @raunakdoesdev have made since we led their seed @firstround just 1 year ago: built the industry leading benchmark, won some HUGE customers, massive growth with a super lean team.
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RT @michlimlim: @DanGrover I cannot recommend enough @tjack and the @firstround team's PMF method retreat in putting structure around custo….
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So excited about what @celinehalioua is building. this product will be magic when it comes out!.
Most founders go through an invention phase and then an execution phase. The best founders never stop inventing -- and @celinehalioua is world class at this. @loyalfordogs is a complex business with a big ambition: “Imagine if” we had more time with the dogs we love. Celine
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RT @ajay_bcv: AI SDRs are dead. The future AI revenue stack starts with GTM superintelligence. This is what @actively_ai is building behind….
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RT @mgarimella: We’re excited to launch Actively AI 🎉 We’re building AI that helps the most ambitious companies in the world generate more….
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RT @agupta_108: Excited to announce our Series A and public launch of Actively AI! Humbled to be doing it alongside a great co-founder in @….
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RT @agupta_108: Thank you so much @tjack! Forever grateful that you and First Round took a bet on us early. It's go time!.
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