Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury on the future of user-centric language tools | E1817

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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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Time stamps:

(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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