Todd Jackson

Everything Todd Jackson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

LENNY'S PODCAST Insight

Jackson: Founders have interviewed enough customers when predicting 70-80% of answers

“Kind of the rule of thumb is like, if you talk to enough people and you can like predict. 70 to 80% of what the next person is gonna say to you, cuz you've just talked to so many people and you've heard the pattern so clearly that's when you've talked to enoug…”

Todd Jackson Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 1:24:49 A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

20VC 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

LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported

Jackson: Plaid originally launched as a consumer budgeting app

“Plaid started out not as like a API for bank accounts. It started out as a consumer budgeting app.”

Todd Jackson Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 32:23 A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated

Looker's founder did 40 hours of hands-on consulting to close early prospects

“Looker is interesting because they spent actually kind of a long time at level one, but then like flew through level two. And the reason is because they, Lloyd, the founder, the first five customers of Looker, he was basically going in and doing consulting for…”

Todd Jackson Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 43:43 A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported

Jackson: Looker required real-data demos while Lattice used Figma mockups

“Lattice is the kind of product I mentioned that could be sold with Figma mockups. Looker couldn't be sold that way. Looker, you actually had to do a demo with their real data. So it required, you know, a lot more work to do that. Vanta was neither like a demo …”

Todd Jackson Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 1:24:14 A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

IN DEPTH Assertion Supported

Jackson: Rewind AI raised over $33M from a16z, NEA, and Sam Altman

“You've raised over thirty three million dollars, I believe at this point from great folks, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Sam Altman, and of course us here at First Round.”

Todd Jackson Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 2:35 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)

20VC 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

20VC 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

20VC 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

20VC 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. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 3 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jag Duggal 2Lenny Rachitsky 1Josh Koppelman 1

Statements about Todd Jackson, by other people (2)

LENNY'S PODCAST Insight

Duggal: Companies must reinvent categories to dominate, not just improve incrementally

“At the company level, I think it's absolutely imperative. To be designing your own category so you can then dominate it and defining your own category. And even when you're entering a place where customers are spending money, I think going in with a mindset th…”

Jag Duggal May 16, 2024 ▶ 56:44 Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)

20VC 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

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Todd's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER	Partner, First Round Capital	1	27	100% 2/2	full record on Lenny's Podcast →
20VCLEDGER	Partner, First Round Capital	1	5	50% 1/2	full record on 20VC →
IN DEPTHLEDGER	Partner, First Round Capital	10	2	100% 1/1	full record on In Depth →