Head of Models @Cloudflare. Founder at @jamdotdev.
Pittsburgh, PA
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Moved to America for school.
Met my wife.
Built a company.
Became a dad.
Today, I became a citizen.
Hard to put into words. But this country changed my life.
Proud to be an American.
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Big personal news: I’ve decided to step away from Jam.
This was a tough call.
Building this company has been one of the most intense and meaningful chapters of my life. My cofounder and I had different views on the path forward, and after a lot of thought, I chose to move on. I’m proud of what we built together and I’ll be cheering on the team as they write the next chapter. I’ll still be on the board and rooting for their success.
Now I’m doing something I haven’t done in a long time: taking real time off. When my daughter was born, I took just five days away from work. This year, I’m making up for lost time. I want to be fully present with her, ski, play soccer and tennis, and enjoy life without a calendar packed to the edge.
I don’t have a grand announcement about what’s next. I’m excited to explore, think, and build again when the time is right.
To everyone who’s been part of this journey, thank you.
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😢 Today was my final day at @Cloudflare .
I am going to miss my teammates, my friends and all the good people who made the last 3.5 years absolutely 🔥.
It will continue to have a special place in my ❤️ .
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I spent 3 years at @Cloudflare where I saw the company go from 300 (series D) to 1200+ (beyond IPO) people.
During my time there I helped ship some amazing products.
Here are the top 3 lessons I learned working at Cloudflare 👇:
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Really excited to share today's news, and thrilled to be joined by an incredible group of industry leaders who inspire us.
There's so much ahead to build, and we're just getting started. Let's go!
Excited to announce our $8.9M Series A led by @ggvcapital, along with @figma and several key industry leaders who’ve changed software engineering before us.
jam.dev/blog/jam-raises-8-9m…
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Berry thankful for @scoopsofjam ‘s newest product manager, Maya. She is keeping us busy.
🙏🏽 @thedanigrant for the onesie.
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Everyday I wake up and realize how lucky I am to have @thedanigrant as my co-founder. Feel unstoppable!
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They say that the true measure of innovation is changing human behavior.
Nominating my 1 year old daughter for Forbes 30 under 30 as a breakthrough innovator.
She successfully changed me from a night owl to a morning person.
We love you Maya! Happy Birthday!!!!!
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Lesson #2: Be humble.
When we launched the 1.1.1.1 mobile app we didn't have dedicated support people to field user questions. Dane (@dok2001), who was an SVP rolled up his sleeves and answered support tickets. No job is too small for anyone.
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Congrats @ritakozlov , @dok2001 and co on the pages launch.
GAMECHANGER
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Lesson #3: Sweat the details.
Cloudflare is now a public company. But, Matthew (@eastdakota) still cares about the product details. He was our fiercest critic. As a PM it can get annoying (guilty! 🙋🏽♂️). But his attention to detail helped us make products that users love.
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What started as 2 product managers who needed a better way to work with engineers has turned into 51,133 people more productively collaborating with engineers!!!!
We just crossed 50,000 users this weekend @jamdotdev!! In 18 months.
Just getting started, but it’s motivating to hit the milestones along the way. Thanks to the 51,133 of you Jamming with us 💜
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Hello from the strawberry fields!
If you
👋🏽Work on a small team
💻Use React or Next.JS
🍓Want to try out a fun product that makes working with others easier and
🚀Helps teams ship faster
Let me know! I have a fun little project I’d love help testing.
My DMs are open.
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Lesson #1: Shipping is the only thing that matters. Ship new products. Ship new features.
We had dedicated weeks for shipping new products (on top of regular releases).
There's one going on right now: Speed Week!
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Hey everyone! I'm really excited to show you what I've been working with with my cofounder @thedanigrant for the last 6 months. Jam @scoopsofjam is live today. You can check us out on PH here: producthunt.com
And...we are live! 👇 hope you like this movie we made about Jam.dev ♥️
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Help us squash bugs by testing 1.1.1.1 w/ WARP on Android. You can opt into the following link to join the beta:
play.google.com/apps/testing…
File a bug report by either shaking the app or by clicking on the bug icon on the top of your screen. 🙏🏽
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Everyone thinks that cold emails are a numbers game.
But I think it's wrong.
Here are 9 practical tactics that I learned to boost my email open rates from < 10% to ~90%. 👇
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Tonight's set up crew for MCP Night w/ @jamdotdev , @Cloudflare & @elevenlabs !
About to kick off some incredible demos 🙌
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🍓We started Jam to help teams ship products faster by bringing tools like slack and jira to your product.
🚀We are hiring our first engineer who will help us guide our technical direction of the company.
🎉Join us and help make building products fun!
notion.so/Founding-Engineer-…
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Obligatory lava lamp photo from the Cloudflare office in Lisbon.
Thanks to @LakeAustinBlvd !
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I started @jamdotdev with @thedanigrant about a year ago. We are learning new skills as founders every day (we sort of HAVE to).
Here are 3 unusual ways to learn as a founder 👇
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🎉 Happy New Year!
💻 For engineers looking for a fresh start in 2021,
🚀 Help us build the future of web development at Jam.
jobs.jam.dev/
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My wife is graduating with an MBA tomorrow. She is celebrating by exporting + importing emails from outlook.
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Right before my green card interview I got stressed out and started a side project to help me practice the employment based green card interview questions. It helped. If you are about to do your interview check it out : theimmigrationinterview.com/ (1/4)
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It was a great experience speaking at #CloudflareConnect about how we replaced our legacy VPN with @Cloudflare Access. If you want to learn how YOU can replace yours with Access, come say hi at the event or send me a DM.
📸: @sgisasi
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🏠 🔒If you are bored on a Sunday afternoon, see how you can use ⛩ @Cloudflare
Gateway to secure your home network from malware, phishing and other security threats on the Internet.
loom.com/share/291805a381424…
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Feels like a great cross over episode when @jamdotdev customers are also happy @Cloudflare customers. The calls get 10X more fun when they learn that @thedanigrant and I were former product managers of their favorite Cloudflare products 🤗
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Creating evidence for when she tells her therapist "my dad never took me anywhere"
Currently $218 + parking into proving I'm not the villain in her origin story.
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I am using the Internet fast lane by installing 1.1.1.1 app. If you use the link below to download the app, both you and I will get 1GB of free WARP+ data. #1dot1dot1dot1 warp.plus/WzBg
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What a way to end the year!!!! Couldn’t be more proud of the team! Congratulations to our users for squashing a million 🐞!!!!!
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You just finished an onboarding call with a customer.
You thought it went well.
Fast forward: they never used your product.
What happened?
I did 200+ onboarding calls since we started jam.dev.
Here are my 3 secrets for successful onboarding calls 👇
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My Co-Founder and CEO of Jam, @thedanigrant spoke with @eriktorenberg about
🚀 How @dok2001 from @Cloudflare brought us together.
🍓 How we decided to hone in on a problem that both of us faced as builders.
🔮 How Jam is going to shape the future of product development.
Thanks @eriktorenberg for having us on the @villageglobal Venture Stories podcast this week! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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This week, organizations around the world are wondering how to access applications on EC2 without a private network as they are WFH.
Check out this short video I made using @useloom to see how you can secure your applications using @Cloudflare Access.
loom.com/share/9374dcf479394…
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A customer asked me this week if ⛩ @Cloudflare Gateway can secure outbound connections from an AWS EC2 Instance.
The answer is yes! And this is how you do it:
loom.com/share/d825346300bb4…
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I wish we had this for all the product I worked on in the past.
Introducing Jam Genies: Summon feedback from the world's top designers at Netflix, Slack, Facebook and others to your website –– with the click of a button.
The fastest way to make your website 10x better.
Book your slot at jam.dev/genies.
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Today @thedanigrant showed me a demo of something new that we are building at @scoopsofjam and my jaw dropped. How is this real?
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Customer calls don't come with a training manual.
I learned a lot by doing hundreds of customer calls at @cloudflare and at @jamdotdev.
Here are the 5 things I learned that you can adopt today to level up your customer calls 👇
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Lucky to play a small part in this journey. Excited for the future!!!
NYSE Opening Bell🔔: @Cloudflare (NYSE: $NET) makes history and celebrates their IPO Day pscp.tv/w/cEuRPjIyODE3NHwxeW…
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We took these lessons with us when @thedanigrant and I started @jamdotdev. If you like this type of content, follow me on twitter and subscribe to my newsletter: irtefa.substack.com where I'll share bite-sized lessons I learn building jam.dev.
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1MM+ people made their internet more private. ✌️✌️#1dot1dot1dot1
More than 1,000,000 people have decided to make their Internet faster and safer by downloading the 1.1.1.1 mobile app. If you don’t want people snooping on what you’re doing on the Internet, you should download it too! one.one.one.one @1111Resolver
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A call with a customer today reminded me again why I became a builder in the first place.
Nothing makes me happier than a customer’s elated face when they use a product that I helped build.
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The team has been working super hard to make this a reality. Thrilled to get it in the hands of our customers. Let’s go!!!!
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Make your internet more private by using 1.1.1.1 for Your Organization!
blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-… via @cloudflare
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So excited to share this with the world!
Proud to announce Jam achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance
60,000 builders rely on Jam for dev-ready bug reports, we don't take that responsibility lightly
We completed all 3rd party audits with zero found exceptions - thanks to the team @DrataHQ for their help through the process
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Hadn't checked this in a while, but incredible to see @Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 now processing 400 billion (with a B) requests per day. 🤯 one.one.one.one
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Continental breakfast at American hotels is disappointing. Tired of seeing sugar rich faux orange juice, cereals and shitty bagels.
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Biggest learning hack I learned since starting @scoopsofjam : if you don’t know something, buy a @udemy course on the topic.
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A lot of great people came together to make this happen.
Families around the world can now use @Cloudflare, @1111Resolver to block malware and adult content.
It takes less than 2 mins to set up.
one.one.one.one/family/
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Attending @thedanigrant ‘s panel: AMERICA’s NEXT TOP #HODL . Learning about #cryptocurrency 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #sxsw
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Still can’t find a barber that cuts hair and trims beard like a Bangladeshi barber. Also, happy anniversary @TuganaiBorina
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🧵You can now assign Jam threads to other people on your team.
👻 This is great for mini tasks that are too much for jira or trello.
🙏🏽 thanks to @some3ody_ for making this possible!
Ha! @some3ody_ just made it so that you can assign threads in Jam - so cool, now with statuses, labels and assignees jam.dev is starting to be like a mini trello, just inline on top of your live product!
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At @jamdotdev, we are maniacal about customer satisfaction. Here's how we built a simple customer feedback hub using @SlackHQ , @coda_hq , @zapier , @Drift , @linear and @GrainHQ .
jam.dev/blog/things-i-do-to-…
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A lot of people worked super hard to make this happen.
Congrats to the team and our partner!
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One of the many reasons why @thedanigrant is a great cofounder!
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I wish I had Jam Edit when I was writing frontend code.
With Jam Edit you can tweak the UI and it tells you what CSS properties you need to change.
Check it out 👇
Annnd it's live! Just launched Jam Edit on ProductHunt. Now you can edit your website, right from the page. 🥳
If you’re up for it, we’d love your help with an upvote! ❤️
👉 producthunt.com/posts/jam-ed…
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Amplitude paid AWS ~$0.0000014 per event last year.
Cheap.. right?
Thing again....
They processed 900B monthly events on June 2021.
Shovels are expensive.
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2020 is gonna be 🔥
Cloudflare kicks off 2020 with a move towards a cloud (security) operating model redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/0…
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Great way to start the week!!!!
OMGG someone just created the 2 millionth Jam!!! 🤯 💜
That's 2 million debuggable bug reports.
2 million times an engineer got all the info they needed to debug upfront!
I am so excited. Thank you to all of you Jamming. Y'all rock and it's an honor to build with and for you!!
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Join our team to work on WARP!
Do you:
🧡Care endlessly for users?
📱Have experience building mobile things?
🚀Want to make the Internet better for millions of people?
We are hiring a PM for 1.1.1.1 and WARP! boards.greenhouse.io/cloudfl…
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It took me 9 years to get my green card since I entered 🇺🇸 to study engineering in 2010. Thanks to my family and @Cloudflare (especially @dok2001 ) for supporting me through this journey. (3/4)
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We are just getting started......
250,000 Jams created last month!
That’s 250K times engineers spent less on fixing old features, and more on building new ones— which matters, because that’s how the future arrives sooner!
It’s a mission I love. Thanks to y’all with us on the journey, one bug report at a time 💜
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The next time you think about doing a design review using a spreadsheet, please @ me. I will show you a better way.
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So excited to share this with the world!
Our biggest launch yet! ⚡️ Meet Jam for Customer Support
End-user recordings + dev logs, available now for all @intercom customers!
Debug customer issues in seconds! jam.dev/customer-support
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🏡 WFH is hard
😟 Especially when I am distracted by news about COVID-19
⛩I have been using @Cloudflare Gateway to block the distracting websites during work hours to stay focused and productive.
Thanks to @jamesallworth @lanebillings @jasonkincaid for helping me write this.
Avoiding distractions while working from home is hard. But if you were using Cloudflare Gateway, you wouldn’t be seeing this tweet! cfl.re/3dfkL5t
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