Todd Jackson
@tjack
Partner @firstround. Former VP Product @Dropbox, Product Director @twitter, co-founder @coverscreen, PM @google, @facebook. Amateur golfer and dad.
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…
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”.
Had a great chat with my friend @manggit about the pain of entrepreneurship. We talked about the good parts too! Great convo, thanks for having me on Build vs Buy! youtube.com/watch?v=YhN-C0…
The 4-day PMF program that @tjack built w/ the team at @firstround is epic. In the 2 yrs it’s been going on, this tiny cohort has collectively raised $295M+, with most saying it was game changing for their businesses to find PMF. And IT’S 100% FREE! Apply by 8/15. Link to apply…
To accelerate AI adoption, we need an AI standard. What Moody’s is for bonds, FICO for credit, SOC 2 for security. Standards offer credible signals of who to trust. They create confidence. Confidence accelerates adoption. Introducing AIUC-1: the world’s first AI agent standard
We just opened up applications for the Fall 2025 cohort of PMF Method, and here’s my pitch to early founders thinking about applying: You get to spend 4 intense days with a wildly talented group of builders as you figure out if your startup idea is worth the next decade of your…
PMF Method applications just opened, and previous cohorts have been STACKED so you definitely should consider applying if you want to hunt for PMF alongside the best of the best. Most of the companies are <18 months old but have collectively raised $295M+ post-program. Grateful…
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 👇
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,…
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,…
📣 We (at actively.ai) are hosting “An Engineer’s Guide to Selling” this Thursday as part of NYC @TechWeek_ w/ technical Series A+ founders talking about how they learned sales + got their first customers / $1M in ARR. If you’re an engineer in NYC who may want to…
Love the new(ish) @firstround branding, soft spot for a good green
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…
Very excited that @withdavidai is announcing their Series A, just 6 months after we led their Seed!! Not just that, but they raised their A from 2 exceptional investors -- @jaltma at @_altcapital & @sarahcat21 at @AmplifyPartners. I wanted to share why our excitement for David…
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,…
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…
Very rare to add a new app to my main home screen but I’m excited about this one
