Dani Grant (CEO of Jam.dev)

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The Slow Hunch

Nick Grossman

17 episodes

1 month ago

The Slow Hunch explores how big ideas form over long periods of time. Big innovations are often characterised as single “eureka” moments, when in fact they're often the culmination of many smaller ideas coalescing over a long period of time. On this podcast, USV's Nick Grossman explores how those ideas took shape, and the nonlinear paths of the people behind them.

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Dani Grant (CEO of Jam.dev)

The Slow Hunch

58 minutes

11 months ago

Dani Grant (CEO of Jam.dev)

In this episode, I spoke to Dani Grant, CEO of Jam.dev, a tool that reimagines the way software teams communicate about and fix bugs.

Dani brings an infectious energy to her work. Before starting Jam, she worked at Cloudflare and was an analyst at USV, where we first crossed paths.

For Dani, Jam isn’t just about making software teams more efficient—it’s about unlocking human potential and bringing the future closer, faster.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Chapters:

00:00 Cold open
03:23 What Dani is building at Jam
05:15 Reflections on her time at Cloudflare
08:11 On the joy of building
09:36 Why bug reporting matters
12:50 On AI and the future of software development
16:04 Why crafting beautiful products is important
19:23 On building trust with AI products
26:21 Building products using decentralized data
30:21 Life growing up in Mountain View
37:26 The power of cold emails
42:44 How learning the flute influenced Dani
48:28 Finding meaning in the startup journey
51:24 The importance of team dynamics
56:04 Nick’s reflections as an investor

The Slow Hunch is produced by the team at Spectral.