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.

What is The Slow Hunch?

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.