Grammarly

12 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 27, 2024 by Rahul Roy-Chowdhury · across every show →

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Jun 27, 2024 neutral
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly shifted focus from individual subscriptions to enterprise demand
“We had historically been focused on individual users buying premium subscriptions, but increasingly we were seeing a lot of demand for Grammarly inside the enterprise.”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 18:05 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 positive
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly saves workplace users an average of 19 days annually
“As one data points on average a person who uses Grammarly at work, Saves 19 business days per year, per user, per year.”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 8:11 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 positive
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly education feature cites student AI prompts
“One of the features we added to our product for education specifically, which I love, is you can use generative AI in Grammarly, and maybe you're writing your, you're writing a term, you're writing an essay or doing some other piece of work product for your Fo…”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 40:18 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 bullish
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly aims to improve every workplace conversation, including video
“Eventually our ambition is to make every conversation better. So that's where Grammarly is headed.”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 46:13 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 neutral
Insight
Roy-Chowdhury: Remote work accelerated the critical need for asynchronous written communication
“Teams have become more distributed and more global. And through the pandemic, it accelerated what is all, what had already been something that is in progress, which is more remote work. And more sort of distributed teams communicating increasingly asynchronous…”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 1:57 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024
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Roy-Chowdhury: LLM boom triggered Grammarly's product rethink and CEO transition
“When LLMs became widely deployed, I saw that as a massive tailwind that increased the ability for us to deliver an incredibly powerful solution to our users. So right around the time when LLMs were becoming widespread and we could all see that this was an oppo…”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 10:28 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 positive
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly in active talks with hundreds of universities on AI
“We are in active conversations with hundreds, literally hundreds, maybe thousands of universities across the US, across the world, all grappling with this question of this is big technical shift.”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 39:12 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly pulled service from Russia over Ukraine invasion
“We paused, we canceled Grammarly availability in Russia and Belarus because there was active military operations against people that we knew who are colleagues of ours in harm's way.”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 50:01 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 positive
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly allows all users to opt out of model training
“We have the opportunity for every single user of Grammarly free or paid individual or business to opt out. Of using Grammarly, using their data to train Grammarly's models.”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 29:19 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 positive
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Roy-Chowdhury: Massive compute and data powered statistical AI's triumph
“Back in the nineties, it was very unclear that the statistical approach would actually be the one that won out, but it did. And I think the answer is exponentially larger amounts of compute, exponentially larger amounts of data unlock Incredibly high fidelity …”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 16:49 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 positive
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly uses LLMs to expand across the entire communication lifecycle
“And so, we have historically focused on primarily the revision phase of this life cycle. Not because we wanted to, but because the technology didn't really enable us to kind of help people along the full spectrum of this communication journey. Now with large l…”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 43:59 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
Jun 27, 2024 positive
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Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly open-sourced sensitive text classifier project Seismograph
“We have built, for example, a sensitive text classifier. It's a project that we call Seismograph and we've open sourced it.”
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 32:29 Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale
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