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Todd Jackson
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Partner @firstround. Former VP Product @Dropbox, Product Director @twitter, co-founder @coverscreen, PM @google, @facebook. Amateur golfer and dad.
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    Apr 8, 2024
    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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    Apr 30, 2025
    Very rare to add a new app to my main home screen but I’m excited about this one
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    Feb 4, 2020
    1/ Excited to finally share some news I've been sitting on: As @phineasb and I announced on @twentyminutevc this morning, I'm officially joining @firstround as a Venture Partner. 😀 Thrilled to join the team that invested in me back when I was a founder. medium.com/@firstround/ad…
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    Aug 14, 2025
    10 years ago, @paraga and I were working together to introduce ranking to Twitter’s timeline for hundreds of millions of consumers. Now he’s started @p0 to build infrastructure for a very different kind of user: AI agents. And in a full circle moment, we’re able to work together
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    Jun 4, 2021
    How do you evaluate products as a seed investor? (part 1) 🧵👇
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    Apr 22, 2020
    Seeing founders pitch straight from Figma recently (instead of using Keynote/Google Slides/PDF). Maybe since they're in Figma all the time already, they just use it when they need to make "slides"?
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    Nov 12, 2025
    2014: Working with @paraga on scaling Twitter 2025: Investing in his $100M Series A for @p0 Ever since we invested in his seed 2 years ago, the @firstround team has had the privilege of partnering closely with Parag as he’s built a stacked team that’s created world-class web
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    Apr 17, 2024
    A microphone that records meetings and dumps the transcripts into Slack. Dropshipping for ecommerce merchants. A team collaboration tool. These were all ideas @christinacaci explored before landing on SOC 2 and @TrustVanta. As we were developing @firstround's PMF Method, we
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    Sep 15, 2022
    Question: how do you successfully sell a product that provides extreme customer value...BUT that value isn't obvious to the customer until after the product is used...AND there’s upfront activation energy required? Open to any and all ideas/examples…thanks!
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    Feb 12, 2025
    Rocketship is an overused term. But it’s hard to come up with another way to describe @FAL’s trajectory — going from $1M to $40M ARR in one year is more vertical line than hockey stick. Their crazy focus on performance and reliability have meant that they’ve built what
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    Sep 1, 2022
    There’s no single right way to find PMF. But I’ve met several successful founders with an approach I find interesting. They start by problem hunting — looking for things people hate doing, or tasks that are tedious and time-consuming...
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    Dec 13, 2023
    Services as Software Seeing some great founders tackle this theme lately across different verticals: SEO, recruiting, growth marketing, trust & safety, legal, etc. Things that you'd traditionally hire an agency, BPO, or consultants to do for you. But well-designed AI systems
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    Todd Jackson
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    Nov 30, 2022
    👇My framework for what makes a great product manager. I think this works for about 70% of companies but may look a bit different depending on your industry, business model and size. Is there anything you would add or remove?
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    Todd Jackson
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    Dec 7, 2022
    Over the past year, I’ve interviewed dozens of founders on one of the most important, yet elusive, parts of company building: finding product-market fit. I’m excited to share these fascinating stories in a new series launching on the @firstround Review today— details below ⬇️