Dani Grant (@thedanigrant) / X

Dani Grant

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Dani Grant

@thedanigrant

Former CEO @jamdotdev, helped 200k+ builders fix 15M+ bugs faster, now cheering on the incredible Jam team 💜

San Francisco, CA

Joined February 2012

Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Jun 10, 2025
joined a call and it's just me and a dozen AIs
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Jun 24, 2024
Telegram is a 30 person team with 1 billion users. Small teams are mighty.
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Jul 17, 2023
"Move fast and break things" is outdated advice for startups.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:
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Oct 8, 2025
Ok so...imagine your browser let you edit the web like a figma Live from @OpenAI DevDay
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Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Mar 24, 2025
Every meeting now
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Nov 29, 2023
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!
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Apr 17, 2025
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).
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Oct 16, 2024
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 I think this is outdated advice that doesn't work anymore in 2024.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"
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Feb 23, 2024
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.
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Nov 14, 2024
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
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Sep 29, 2023
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.
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The 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…)
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Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Mar 25, 2024
Midjourney is a 40 person company making $200M/yr in revenue. Small teams are mighty.
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Jul 1, 2024
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.
Dani Grant
@thedanigrant
Jul 17, 2023
Replying to @thedanigrant
It’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.