Grammarly shifted its flagship product to an OS-level integration in 2021
Max Litvin · Asking The Founder Of Grammarly How He Built A $13 Billion Company · Feb 16, 2022 · at 7:12
Max Litvin, co-founder of Grammarly, discusses the company's product evolution beyond browser extensions with podcast host Sam Parr.
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“We just recently switched over to our flagship product being operating system level integration. So it works similarly to Chrome plugin, except it integrates with all the apps, not just web apps. so that's that was a big switchover that happened in December. So just about a month ago. so that's it expands the surface area for Grammarly. Now it's in Microsoft PowerPoint and you know, Oracle applications and wherever, wherever you want.”
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