Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury on the future of user-centric language tools | E1817
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Today’s show:
Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury joins Jason to discuss his journey to CEO (15:28), Grammarly’s product features (26:20), AI integrations (32:28), and much more!
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(0:00) Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury joins Jason
(4:19) Rahul's start in tech and his time on the Google Chrome team.
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(10:24) The Chrome team and Chrome OS
(15:28) Journey to Grammarly CEO
(19:29) Exploring applications and platforms for Grammarly
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(26:20) The product roadmap and what draws people into Grammarly
(35:04) Grammarly's business and enterprise offerings
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(38:53) Product Features: Knowledge Share and Grammarly Goals
(42:28) The addition of Grammarly Go and the LLM powering it
(47:12) Controversial product features
(54:17) When to use the native desktop application and extensions
(57:13) Future integration of AI and the path ahead
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| 0:00.0 | in general my philosophy of life is you know we have limited time on earth to make an impact |
| 0:06.1 | let's just really do things that matter that create the most possible impact we can have in the |
| 0:10.6 | in the time that we have available to us that's what my idea behind Chrome let's work on Chrome |
| 0:15.0 | because we can have a massive impact on the world and so when I look at Grammarly I'm like I love |
| 0:19.2 | this mission if we are successful 10 years from now five years from our billions of people around |
| 0:24.5 | the world are using Grammarly to communicate better to show up better to have more confidence |
| 0:30.2 | to reduce misunderstanding that is a worthwhile endeavor so the mission hooked me in. |
| 0:36.7 | This week in startups is brought to you by CLA innovation takes balance CLA's CPAs consultants |
| 0:45.2 | and wealth advisors can help you get from startup to where you want to end up get started now |
| 0:50.8 | at CLAconnect.com slash tech link squares life for in-house legal just got a whole lot easier |
| 0:59.0 | from contract creation to execution and more link squares is the go to for all your legal needs |
| 1:05.9 | learn more at link squares dot com slash twist and code academy build the future you want to see with |
| 1:15.2 | code academy code academy pro helps you learn everything you'll need to shape what comes next in the |
| 1:21.8 | tech space try it free for 14 days visit code academy dot com slash twist all right everybody welcome |
| 1:31.2 | back to this week in startups I'm really excited because once in a while you know I'll have a |
| 1:36.8 | a CEO on the company who I am absolutely a fanboy of their product and today I am really lucky to |
| 1:45.7 | have role Roy Chattery the CEO of Grammarly on the program I am addicted to Grammarly what is |
| 1:54.0 | Grammarly you ask it is a app that helps you become a better writer now it's called Grammarly |
| 1:59.3 | of course because it fixes your grammar but oh my lord I can take you to this product roadmap |
| 2:05.3 | point by point and I as a writer professional writer somebody who's paid to write an |
| 2:11.2 | a former journalist I like to have the comms in the right place I like a certain style of writing |
| 2:16.4 | and I with Grammarly can say I want concise writing for intelligent people in a business setting |
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