Noronha: Gamma Explored AI Out of Desperation to Impress Investors
Jon Noronha · Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show · Sep 4, 2025 · at 37:04
Jon Noronha, co-founder of Gamma, explains the company's decision to pivot toward generative AI in late 2022 as runway shortened and fundraising markets tightened.
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“And so we started to get excited about AI and the reason we got excited about it was honestly, not even because we necessarily believed in it on its own sake, but because we thought it would impress investors and we knew we were hitting a desperation point where we had to have something shiny and different that we could show that would get us that next few years of life that would let us actually prove the product would work.”
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