Dani Grant
5,912 posts
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Former CEO @jamdotdev, helped 200k+ builders fix 15M+ bugs faster, now cheering on the incredible Jam team 💜
- Telegram is a 30 person team with 1 billion users. Small teams are mighty.
- "Move fast and break things" is outdated advice for startups. Software ate the world—and there's more competition than ever. Our startup learned the hard way to ignore this advice, and this is what happened:
00:00- This is the cold email that got me my first job in tech. Shoot your shot. You never know. Here’s the template: • 1 sentence: why them • 1 sentence: your intent • 2 sentences: why you • Last sentence: let’s chat Hope this helps someone!
- My 1st day at Cloudflare, the now CTO gave me 1 big piece of advice: Ship small wins early. Like ASAP. The easiest way to build trust in a new org is to ship small wins early. Ship small and fast (otherwise you're just the new PM working on the same darn feature for 6 months).
- When you start a startup, so many people tell you to ship fast and ship messy. "You’ll know you have PMF when people use your broken product." I think this is outdated advice that doesn't work anymore in 2024. Maybe better today would be: "ship fast, small scope, high quality"
- Figma started as a drone company. Twitter started as a podcast app. Instagram was a location-based social network. We went through 7 failures until we hit PMF. And just crossed 80K users! Sometimes a change of direction is exactly what you need to get to your destination.
- Calendly didn’t have a technical co-founder Instead, they built the product with a dev agency (Jam too!) There’s no one way to build a startup Don’t let people tell you you need a technical cofounder to start your company
- Amazon and Calendly both didn't have technical co-founders Our startup just hit 40,000+ users without a technical co-founder Don't let not having a technical co-founder stop you from launching a startup.Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThe tweet suggests that Jeff Bezos isn't a "technical" founder, implying he doesn't have engineering expertise. However, Bezos earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1986. (cnbc.com/2020/02/07/ama…)
- Midjourney is a 40 person company making $200M/yr in revenue. Small teams are mighty.
- It took Jeff Bezos 60 investor meetings and nearly a year to raise the first $1M of venture for Amazon. If you have conviction, just keep going.
- Replying to @thedanigrantIt’s still important to ship fast to learn. But you won’t learn anything if your product is too buggy. The key is to cut product scope so much that you actually can ship something bug-free. Cut every non-essential feature. Ship fast, with small scope, high quality.
