Last week we announced $7m in pre-seed financing for Airstack (makers of web3 developer APIs and the Jam app for Farcaster) Today: Ask Me (literally) Anything
Regret is way too strong of a word so soften it. What's your biggest professional regret?
How do you split your time between Airstack and Jam? Long term, which of the two are you most excited about? Also congrats on the raise!
Do you think that as your company grows you’ll need to focus the business on either the platform APIs or the consumer app side? Can you do both successfully, and if so what challenges do you think you’ll face to support developers through one product and consumers on another? I’d... longcast.jam.so/jjiyXq
I gotta ask - do you see yourself launching a dashboarding tool that helps people make dashboards out of airstack queries?
Is it exhausting/energizing hoping from one crypto conference to the next? Do you ever miss sleeping in your own bed?
has it been easy raising fund in this market? tips for others considering raising?
What were your communicated goals for the first half of the pre-seed? What was the forcing function that made you decide to stop with the first half and continue building before raising again? Lastly did you set out to raise the total of (first + second) or did you decide more was needed & started raising again
First, we had reasonable expectations relative to the market. These are not the days of $10m or $30m pre product pre seed rounds. We set out to raise $2M August last year; that was all we felt we needed to launch the product in beta in March this year; we ended up getting $3.5M in commits... longcast.jam.so/jjEdxq
Non developer? Got a hunger for growth? We are looking for passionate and technical community leaders to join the Airstack core GTM team ✨ Head of Growth ✨ Developer Relations Lead ✨ Business Development Manager
How do you set and monitor your growth goals @ Jam when one of the most critical factors for your app - Farcaster protocol DAUs - is partially outside your control?
Throughout the raising process, did you discover any new or surprising problems in the web3 space that investors value and the ecosystem would benefit from being solved (and that don’t compete with Airstack or Jam)?
Throughout the raising process, did you discover any new or surprising problems in the web3 space that investors value and the ecosystem would benefit from being solved (and that don’t compete with Airstack…maybe even complement it)?
Are there any opportunities for primarily Java/Gradle experienced devs? If not, are there any ways to contribute/gain experience for opportunities that do exist?
What new functionality that Airstack enables today makes you most excited about its future?
What’s your short/medium/long term thesis for why you’re building in web3?
I don’t ask this to troll, I’m honestly intellectually curious. Why did u raise so much money?
@betashop how did you arrive at the name Jam for your FC Client product? Do you have any decisions making steps or frameworks available in public to better understand what inspired this name? Was there a predilection for Jelly or Marmalade? Did you work with any outside branding agency? Why Airstack? Why now?
