Todd Jackson

Partner, First Round Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Todd Jackson is a Partner at First Round Capital known for creating its framework on evaluating product-market fit. He previously co-founded Cover and served as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, alongside product leadership roles at Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

5statements → 4claims → 2claims resolved → 4.6/5average certainty → 1/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not yet assessed how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Todd argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Gmail grew to 200 million users during Todd Jackson's tenure

“And we grew Gmail to over two hundred million users during my time there.”

Todd Jackson Feb 4, 2020 ▶ 4:52 Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

How they sound: speaking style how? →

259 words/min while actually speaking · 0.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Todd Jackson: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 16 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 3,742 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Todd Jackson is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 4/10

pushed back at the host 1/10

setup questions received 75%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 12:56“How do you guys think about the centrality of character LTVs? Because I get very, very annoyed when I hear pre-seed and seed investors harp on about character LTV when quite frankl…” ▶ 19:33“If that's the type of investor that, you know, you'd like, and you think you will be with first round, I think, I mean, it's a, it's quite a direct question. So apologies for this,…” ▶ 26:58“Where do you think many firms maybe go wrong when approaching this?”

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Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Dropbox maintained a double-digit LTV:CAC ratio prior to its 2018 IPO

“At Dropbox, you know, the LTV to CAC Ratio was actually in the double digits when I was there, and so that enabled us to have the revenue predictability that was key to our IPO in 2018, and it was just a few years after we pivoted most of the business from con…”

Todd Jackson Feb 4, 2020 ▶ 10:59 Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

Assertion Partly supported

Cover reached 2M organic users and sold to Twitter in 14 months

“We grew to over two million users in our first couple months with zero money spent on paid acquisition, and we got acquired by Twitter just 14 months after founding the company.”

Todd Jackson Feb 4, 2020 ▶ 5:34 Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Google delayed a major Gmail redesign over 30 milliseconds of latency

“And I remember one time we had gone through this big redesign of the label system in Gmail, and we were about to launch it. And actually the night before launch, we held it back because we realized we had unintentionally added about 30 milliseconds or 40 milli…”

Todd Jackson Feb 4, 2020 ▶ 9:28 Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

Disclosure

Todd Jackson is an LP in funds by Stanton, Ling, and Kimmel

“I've gotten to see a lot of my friends who are great investors. Katie Stanton, like you mentioned, love, love the episode with her, by the way, Ben Ling, Brianne Kimmel start their own funds as solo GPs. And I'm actually an LP in those funds.”

Todd Jackson Feb 4, 2020 ▶ 25:32 Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

Assertion Supported

Gmail grew to 200 million users during Todd Jackson's tenure

“And we grew Gmail to over two hundred million users during my time there.”

Todd Jackson Feb 4, 2020 ▶ 4:52 Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

The other half of the tape: Todd Jackson's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Todd Jackson, by other people (1)

Disclosure

First Round Capital does not use deal attribution or partner portfolios

“We don't have an attribution model, and so when we make an investment, it's a first-round company. I don't have my portfolio, and over time, Todd won't have his, and so on.”

Phin Barnes Feb 4, 2020 ▶ 28:04 Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Tra	Feb 4, 2020	15m