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Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

Unsupervised Learning explores artificial intelligence from a venture investor’s perspective, bringing researchers and company builders into conversations about capabilities, products and business consequences. Jacob Effron is the principal host named in the current title. The catalog combines interviews with occasional roundtables and other Redpoint contributors. For finance readers, the useful questions concern where value may accumulate, how adoption happens and which assumptions about the technology support an investment thesis.

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Artificial intelligenceVenture capitalBusiness modelsEnterprise adoption

The show

AI researcher and founder interviews · Redpoint Ventures

The Desk’s listening note

Choose a discussion about adoption or business models, and keep technical capability, customer demand and defensible economics as three separate questions.

Who it’s for

Technology investors, founders and business readers comfortable with some technical discussion who want to connect AI developments with commercial adoption and company economics.

A useful place to start

Begin with the Benedict Evans conversation on the AI hype cycle, focusing on adoption and business economics, then explore a researcher interview for technical context.

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The people behind the microphone

Meet the host.

All host profiles

Jacob Effron is the principal host. The publisher also names Patrick Chase, Jordan Segall and Erica Brescia; some roundtables feature additional contributors.

Managing director, Redpoint Ventures; podcast host

Jacob Effron

Jacob Effron is a managing director at Redpoint Ventures, where he invests in growth-stage companies across artificial intelligence, enterprise software and healthcare. He joined the firm in 2020 after working in product at Flatiron Health, with earlier experience at Off Grid Electric and McKinsey. He hosts Unsupervised Learning, connecting conversations with researchers and founders to the business implications of AI.

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Sources & further reading

Profile checked September 18, 2026. Editorial notes are Perimeter’s interpretation.