Todd Jackson

Partner, First Round Capital · 10 appearances 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.

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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)

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Insight

Jackson: Founders rarely practice picking ideas, while VCs train it constantly

“As an engineer, as a founder, you, you've developed these muscles on how to build, and you are very good at building. But what you only do once or twice is pick the thing to work on. And VCs, you know, one of the, I think the luxuries that we have VCs, we get …”

Todd Jackson Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 17:18 Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)

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)

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Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis) Apr 21, 2026 · 1 mention · from 0:26
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Appearances (10)