Jon Turow
Partner at Madrona Venture Group
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Madrona is a venture firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Head Of Product, Computer Vision
2018 - 2022
AI/ML for computer vision. Amazon Rekognition makes it easy to add highly accurate image and video analysis to your applications. Amazon Textract lets you easily extract text & data from virtually any document.
Principal Technical Product Manager - AWS Greengrass
2016 - 2022
Wrote the original product and business plan for Greengrass. Responsible for bringing the Greengrass product from idea to launch (and onward). AWS Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS onto devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. Greengrass helped to power COVID vaccine cold chain tracking: https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/technology-business-public-health-immunizations-health-care-industry-f8e1bc0a00055a3dcb8bff15798f1428
Product - AWS IoT
2014 - 2016
I founded the AWS IoT team, wrote the original product and business plan, and got it approved by the CEO of Amazon. Listed as an inventor on multiple AWS IoT patent filings. Helped grow the team from 1 to 50+ people (and rising). AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. For more information, see http://aws.amazon.com/iot
Product - Simple Notification Service (SNS)
2012 - 2014
Product lead for the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). Launched mobile push, and grew it from zero to billions of daily messages (possibly the largest mobile push intermediary in the world). Responsibilities included defining the roadmap and business plan for mobile push notifications. Previously also was the product lead for Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). Accelerated the growth rate of this powerful service that's been around since 2004.
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Cofounder
2011 - 2012
• Cloud telephony for local commerce • Established telephony infrastructure and commercial distribution partnerships in India, Brazil, and USA. • Raised funding from Dave McClure / 500 startups. * Grew from a white sheet of paper to a team of 5 with customers, technology and funding.
Strategy Manager
2006 - 2011
• Evaluated competitive app store strategies for a $230B software company, identifying opportunity to increase client’s app catalog size 100% by leveraging existing, proprietary technology. • Managed product development and launch activities of industry-first iPad app for a $40B Cable Company. Advised CTO and coordinated the efforts of internal developers and business stakeholders. The app was downloaded 360,000 times in its first month of availability. • Designed strategy and operating model for a social VC fund of $3B NGO. • Developed revenue-planning framework to project capacity of 250k partner companies for a $50B ecosystem. Personally trained country managers to use it in Asia, Middle East and Western Europe.
Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.
Blogger
2005 - 2006
• Evaluated early social networking industry with economic analyses and interviews of leading players, attracting more than 3,000 hits per month from more than 20 countries within six months of launch. http://www.minorityrapport.com
Marketing Intern, Fox Digital Cable Group
2001 - 2001
• Evaluated opportunities to repurpose existing Fox library content in new digital cable and interactive TV (iTV) formats, targeted to niche interests such as wedding planning.
News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Raised $512,500,000.00 from Liberty Media.