Jon Turow

Jon Turow

Venture Partner at Madrona
Seattle, Washington, United States

Jon Turow joined Madrona as a partner in 2022 and moved to a venture partner role in 2026; he is now a member of the technical team at Anthropic. He previously spent more than a decade at AWS, leading product for computer vision AI services such as Amazon Textract and Amazon Rekognition and writing the original plans for AWS IoT and Greengrass. Before Amazon he co-founded a cloud telephony startup.

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Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow

Get to know Madrona Partner Jon Turow. Learn what drew him to venture capital and working with founders, what he looks for in founders, where he sees opportunities for founders when it comes to generative AI, and what he enjoys doing outside the office. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:39 Jon's background 00:01:19 Why venture capital 00:02:27 Why Madrona 00:03:20 Opportunities in generative AI 00:05:35 What Jon looks for in founders 00:07:02 Jon's book recommendations 00:08:58 What Jon does for fun

9 min

Organizations

  • Anthropic Technical Staff · current
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    Madrona Venture Partner · current
  • Substack Newsletter Author · current

Education

  • The Wharton School BS, Finance, Strategic Management
  • Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management MBA, Strategy, Entrepreneurship

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