Jira
6 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 17, 2023 by Kellan Elliott-McCrea · said 33 times in 8 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Karri Saarinen (15), Brett Berson (3), Kellan Elliott-McCrea (2), Jake Stauch (2), Tara Seshan (1), Oliver Jay (1), Dennis Pilarinos (1)
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2025 17 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
2024 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
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2023 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Jira, oldest first
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Elliott-McCrea: Jira is built for control and predictability, not greatness
“Jira is not built for building greatness. You can use it that way. But fundamentally it's about someone who's trying to create a sense of control and a sense of predictability over it while at the same time actually asking to be surprised.”
Jan 4, 2024 positive
Jay: Infrastructure and developer PLG tools convert directly to enterprise deals
“If I think about certain dev ops tools, think about like a data dog or the infrastructure layer, the PLG traction Directly leads to an enterprise deal, right? A small team of engineers evaluate the products. They decide Datadog is the right product to go with.…”
Jan 4, 2024 bearish
Jun 5, 2025 neutral
Saarinen: Users treat incumbent enterprise software like permanent building floors
“Like, I think this market is like weird where you have this incumbent and I think people just assume it's the thing. It's like, it's always been there. It's always going to be there. And so it's a little bit like the floors in the building. It's like, you don'…”
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Saarinen: No project management tool properly targeted engineering to rival Jira
“Obviously there's been companies, other companies doing project management and stuff, but No one has really focused on the engineering use case that well, I think, and haven't been able to get to the scale where, where like GRI is.”
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Stauch: Better UX than Jira or ServiceNow is not a differentiator
“It would have been very easy to start with an IT ticketing system and you could make it much better UX than Jira and ServiceNow. And you could try to sell that. We didn't think that that was really going to be the difference maker. We said, if we can build an …”