Welcome to the Peel. I'm your host, Turner Novak, founder of Banana Capital. Today's guest is Rahul Vora. You might know Rahul is the founder and CEO of Superhuman. It's the premium email client used by busy professionals, including me, to get work done faster.

Rahul recently sold his company to Grammar League, which had just acquired Coda, and then rebranded the combined companies to Superhuman, of which he's now the CEO of Superhuman Mail.

And I personally love this conversation because Gramerly is one of the original generative AI products, first started in 2009 to help you write better.

It's quietly one of the most underrated companies that no one talks

about, having grown to over 40 million daily active users and over $700 million in ARR. It's fascinating

because they've spent years building a backdoor into over a million other products that they're now

building more AI products on top of. We talk about Raul's journey building superhuman, go inside the acquisition,

talk about the grand vision of the new company and all the lessons he's learned

from this acquisition plus selling his first company, reported to LinkedIn, in 2014.

We also revisit his famous quantitative guide to finding PMF, designing your product

like a video game, and why we need more solo founders. A quick thank you to Todd Goldberg, Ed Sim, Shomikash, Ryan Hoover, and Rahul's brother, Gaurav for helping brainstorm topics for the conversation. My reminder, I published two episodes of The Peel every week exploring the world's greatest startup stories just like this one. Check out the back catalog of over 100 episodes

and tune in next week for a conversation with 8 Sleep Founder Mateo Franchichetti

on all things sleep and health optimization.

Let's talk to Rahul after a quick word from Hanover Park.

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They provide bookkeeping and accounting so investment firms can report to their investors on a quarterly basis.

What's crazy is they charge hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars per year. They not screw up your accounting. They sit together third party software like QuickBooks, build a com, Salesforce, and Excel, and then throw a bunch of bodies at you. And that's where Hanover Park comes in. They built their own accounting system from scratch, which ingests all your firm's data and documents

and their AI-native solution automates all the manual work that drives private market investors

crazy.

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