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Jacob Effron

Redpoint Ventures partner; host of the Unsupervised Learning AI podcast

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Updated 2026-09-03.

  1. Ep 70: Nourish CEO Aidan Dewar on Hiring in the AI Era, Future of GLP-1s and Scaling Metabolic Health
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2026-08-05
  2. AI Vibe Check: Chinese Open Models, Distillation & The Hugging Face Breach
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-08-03
  3. Ep 92: xAI Co-Founder Unpacks the Future of Model Development
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-07-31
  4. Ep 91: Top AI Analyst Unpacks Today's AI Hype Cycle
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-07-16
  5. Ep 90: AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-07-09
  6. Ep 69: Cadence Founder Chris Altchek on the Future of Chronic Disease Care
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2026-06-24
  7. AI Vibe Check: Lab Wars, Why APIs Might Vanish & Future Predictions
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-06-12
  8. Ep 89: AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-06-03
  9. Ep 88: Unpacking DeepMind's Quest for SuperIntelligence with Demis Hassabis' Biographer
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-06-01
  10. Ep 68: Garner Health Founder on Measuring Doctor Quality, The AI Landscape & What Improves Healthcare
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2026-05-29
  11. Ep 87: Gemini Co-Lead on World Models, RL's Next Domains & Continual Learning
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-05-22
  12. Ep 86: Yann LeCun on Leaving Meta, Breaking The LLM Paradigm, & Why Hinton is Wrong
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-05-15
  13. Ep 67: Abridge Leaders on AI-Native Healthcare, Doctors Who Code, and the Future of Clinical AI
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2026-04-30
  14. Ep 85: Has AI Infra Stabilized, FM Vibe Shift, & What's Next for Coding Agents
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-04-23
  15. Ep 84: OpenAI’s Chief Scientist on Continual Learning Hype, RL Beyond Code, & Future Alignment Directions
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-04-09
  16. Why Healthcare, Ever the Tech Laggard, Finally Got the AI Memo, with Jacob Effron
    Neural Compass
    2026-04-07
  17. Ep 83: Owning the System of Record, AI-Native Org Charts, & Why ITSM is The Most Vulnerable Legacy Category
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-04-02
  18. Investor Stories 467: Investors from Techstars, Redpoint, and Andreessen Horowitz on Strategy, Writing, and Building an Edge in Venture (Cohen, Effron, Simpson)
    The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
    2026-03-23
  19. Ep 82: Behind Legora's $550M Raise, Model Competition, Doubling Revenue Every Quarter, & US Expansion
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-03-11
  20. Investor Stories 459: Inside the Best LP Questions: Getting Better Over Time, Building Networks, and Driving Outcomes (Effron, Austin, Simpson)
    The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
    2026-02-12
  21. Ep 81: Ex-OpenAI Researcher On Why He Left, His Honest AGI Timeline, & The Limits of Scaling RL
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2026-01-29
  22. Investor Stories 454: When There Are No Good Choices: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas, Founder Splits, and Existential Company Threats (Cohen, Effron, Austin)
    The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
    2026-01-22
  23. Ep 66: Pete Shalek On The Future of Front Office Automation
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2026-01-07
  24. AI Vibe Check: The Actual Bottleneck In Research, SSI’s Mystique, & Spicy 2026 Predictions
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-12-18
  25. Amazon x OpenAI, Ford's EV Reality Check, Kushner Drops WB Bid | Sarah Guo, David Senra, Doug O'Laughlin, Doug Bernauer, Jacob Effron, Logan Kilpatrick
    TBPN
    2025-12-17
  26. Ep 80: CEO of Surge AI Edwin Chen on Why Frontier Labs Are Diverging, RL Environments & Developing Model Taste
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-12-15
  27. Ep 79: OpenAI's Head of Product on How the Best Teams Build, Ship and Scale AI Products
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-12-10
  28. Ep 65: CMMI Leaders on ACCESS Model Launch, Drug Pricing Strategy, and the Future of Technology Enabled Care
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-12-08
  29. Ep 78: Jordan Schneider, Host of China Talk, on AI Race, Key Policy Decisions & Unpacking Geopolitical Chip Tension
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-12-05
  30. Ep 77: Anthropic’s Dianne Na Penn on Opus 4.5, Rethinking Model Scaffolding & Safety as a Competitive Advantage
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-12-02
  31. 496. How Model Progress Shifts the Goalposts, Why The Death of Software Is Overstated, and How to Diligence Hypergrowth Without Getting Burned (Jacob Effron)
    The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified
    2025-11-17
  32. Ep 64: Sutter Health CEO & President Warner Thomas on Digital Transformation and the Future of Health Systems
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-11-07
  33. Ep 76: Sora Creators Bill Peebles, Rohan Sahai & Thomas Dimson on Their Unexpected Viral Success
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-11-03
  34. AI Round Up: Ari Morcos from Datalogy AI and Rob Toews from Radical VC on Karpathy Reactions, OpenAI’s Dealmaking, & Bubble Reality Check
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-10-24
  35. Ep 62: Merck KGaA Chief Data and AI Officer on Scaling AI in Pharma and The Future of Enterprise Software
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-09-29
  36. AI Round Up: Ari Morcos from Datalogy AI and Rob Toews from Radical VC on AI Talent Wars, xAI’s $200B Valuation, & Google’s Comeback
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-09-24
  37. Ep 61: Co-Founder of Chai Discovery Joshua Meier on 99% Faster Drug Discovery, BioTech’s AlphaGo Moment, Building Photoshop for Molecules
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-09-22
  38. Ep 75: Nano Banana’s Oliver Wang and Nicole Brichtova - Behind the Breakthrough as Gemini Tops the Charts
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-09-17
  39. Ep 74: Chief Scientist of Together.AI Tri Dao On The End of Nvidia's Dominance, Why Inference Costs Fell & The Next 10X in Speed
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-09-10
  40. Ep 73: General Partner of Felicis Peter Deng on on AI Pricing Tactics, Reaction to GPT-5 & Why Voice is Underrated
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-08-26
  41. Ep 72: Co-Founder of Chai Discovery Joshua Meier on 99% Faster Drug Discovery, BioTech’s AlphaGo Moment, Building Photoshop for Molecules
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-08-13
  42. SaaStr 815: Redpoint Ventures Playbook: How Top VCs Are Really Investing in AI
    The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
    2025-08-13
  43. Ep 60: General Medicine's Elliot Cohen on Lessons from PillPack and Amazon and The Future of AI x Healthcare
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-07-31
  44. Ep 71: CEO of TurboPuffer Simon Eskildsen on Building Smarter Retrieval, AI App Must-Have Features & Current State of Vector DBs
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-07-22
  45. Ep 70: Karol Hausman and Danny Driess (Physical Intelligence) Unpack the Most Recent Breakthroughs & Path to Generalist Robots
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-07-08
  46. Ep 69: Co-Founder of Databricks & LMArena on Current Eval Limitations, Why China is Winning Open Source and Future of AI Infrastructure
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-06-17
  47. Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-06-04
  48. Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-05-27
  49. Flashback: Hinge Health CEO Daniel Perez on Effective Employer Sales, Patient Engagement and His Top Advice to Founders
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-05-23
  50. Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-05-22
  51. Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-05-14
  52. Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-05-08
  53. Ep 59: Photon Health CEO Otto Sipe on the Future of Pharmacies, PBMs and GLP-1s
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-05-01
  54. Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-04-29
  55. Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-04-15
  56. Ep 58: Iora Health Former CEO Rushika Fernandopulle on Current State of Value Based Care Across Payer Types and AI’s Role in Primary Care
    Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan
    2025-04-10
  57. Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-04-09
  58. Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-03-28
  59. Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-03-25
  60. Ep 58: Google Researchers Noam Shazeer and Jack Rae on Scaling Test-time Compute, Reactions to Ilya & AGI
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
    2025-03-17

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