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title: 'TechCrunch covers Portland startup Graze'
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# TechCrunch covers Portland startup Graze

I know, I know. I’ve been talking a lot about Graze and how excited I am but the work they’re doing with Bluesky. But just to prove I’m not offer my rocker — about Graze at least — I wanted to share [a lengthy write up on TechCrunch describing what this Portland startup is doing](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/custom-feed-builder-graze-is-building-a-business-on-bluesky-and-investors-are-paying-attention/).

“I’ve been doing tech startups for 30 years and this is actually the craziest early-stage growth curve I’ve ever seen,” says Graze co-founder and CEO Peat Bakke, speaking to the tool’s adoption. “We went from zero — literally no traffic — to serving hundreds of thousands of unique people every day, tens of millions of content impressions. It’s nuts. It’s totally nuts. And it’s all word of mouth.”

> Bakke is joined by co-founder [Devin Gaffney](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devin-gaffney/), whose background is in social media and network analysis. The two began working together around 12 years ago on [Little Bird](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/little-bird), a social data analysis startup that relied on parsing Twitter’s full feed, also known as the “[Firehose](https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/01/twitter-firehose-realtime-search-startups/),” to extract insights that could be useful to businesses.
> 
> Now, they’re working with the new generation’s firehose: the “[Jetstream](https://docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstream)” offered by the open and decentralized social network [Bluesky](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/what-is-bluesky-everything-to-know-about-the-x-competitor/), which includes all the public posts from its now over [30.3 million users](https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats) as well as future apps building on the underlying [AT Protocol](https://atproto.com/) (or atproto, for short).

To read more, visit TechCrunch for “[Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/custom-feed-builder-graze-is-building-a-business-on-bluesky-and-investors-are-paying-attention/).”

- ***Fun fact [\#1](https://siliconflorist.com/tag/1/)**: Portland startup Little Bird, a PIE alum, gets a mention.*
- ***Fun fact [\#2](https://siliconflorist.com/tag/2/)**: Both the cofounder and CEO of Little Bird, Marshall Kirkpatrick, and I used to work the author of the post, Sarah Perez, back at ReadWriteWeb*

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