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Jacob Effron
Partner at Redpoint Ventures
Jacob Effron is a Partner at Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. He has been with Redpoint since 2020, focusing on investments in various sectors, particularly health technology and consumer internet. His portfolio includes companies such as AcuityMD, Deliverect, Ramp, and Strive Health, among others.12
Professional Background
Before joining Redpoint, Effron worked at Maverick Capital as an investor in its early-stage investment arm, Maverick Ventures, from 2019 to 2020. He also held various roles at Flatiron Health, including Product Manager and Senior Manager of Provider Business Operations, from 2016 to 2018. Additionally, he worked as a Special Projects Manager at Off.Grid
Education and Interests
Effron graduated from The Wharton School, where he majored in history, a field he continues to enjoy through reading non-fiction. He has a strong interest in entrepreneurship and its impact on heavily regulated industries like healthcare and financial services. Effron is also an avid soccer fan, having attended matches in 14 different countries.145
Current Activities
In addition to his role at Redpoint, Effron is involved as a board observer for several companies and has a podcast titled "Vital Signs," where he discusses trends in health technology with industry leaders.34
Highlights
New Unsupervised Learning with @mercor_ai CEO @BrendanFoody and @patrickachase on:
- Why most knowledge workers will be primarily creating evals in the future
- How AI is already outperforming humans in hiring
- The meeting with xAI that changed Mercor’s trajectory
- AI x Hiring today
- Brendan’s take on the Future of Data Labeling
Listen here👇
YouTube: https://t.co/edgOoOreWf Spotify: https://t.co/QEy2OoicGq Apple: https://t.co/EilXnriVwq
New Unsupervised Learning with @AI_Futures_ Researchers @DKokotajlo and @thlarsen on:
- Unpacking AI 2027
- Current alignment research and what's working / not working + challenges ahead
- The path to AI dramatically accelerating AI research
- The race between model improvement and alignment research and different potential outcomes
- How Daniel and Thomas would change AI policy
Full episode ⬇️
YouTube: https://t.co/oEpWdemqxE Spotify: https://t.co/R9xutcq5sm Apple: https://t.co/kzvp3WnAoq