This sounds like a VC forced marriage. I'm like 90% sure that Coda and Grammarly are both under the same VC umbrella.
General Catalyst
…is the name of the VC company. Just for clarity.
Grammarly acquires Coda
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#22Grammarly has been having an identity crisis ever since LLMs made grammar checking accessible to every company at a fraction of the cost. ChatGPT is killing a lot of companies and grammarly was the first collateral. This acquisition is concerning because Grammarly is well known for its bad privacy policy and how it's essentially a keylogger. Now that it has access to probably thousands of companies data hosted on Cod…
I am perplexed by Grammarly getting progressively worse as time goes by. I am seriously considering spending a weekend or two on writing myself a small LLM powered clone. I think a browser extension for Gmail should be relatively easy. I am not sure about Word (desktop) and Google Docs though.
> I am perplexed by Grammarly getting progressively worse as time goes by.
Leadership issue.
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#23> Both companies had arrived at a similar view of the future where AI will redefine every business application and workflow — and reinvent productivity as we know it today into a place where humans and AI work together everywhere you get work done. We want to rethink a suite of tools and come together to provide users and teams with their own AI productivity platform for apps and agents.
> We discussed each of our paths to achieving this vision, and while both teams felt confident in their paths, it was obvious that we would move much faster together. The way that each of us has approached this market is different but inherently complementary. And so the conversation became... “What if we merged the companies?”
> Over the next few days, through discussions with Grammarly CEO (Rahul Roy-Chowdhury) and the co-founders (Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko) we started sketching out what a combined company would feel like: how the teams would fit together, where the products could immediately integrate and amplify, etc. And we also discussed the leadership structure, and agreed that I would lead the joint company as CEO.
> With a round of sushi and some sake, we shook hands — excited to work together on the future of AI.
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The idea that any acquisition, but especially this one, was minted in this fashion is hilarious.
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#24Last month most of my YouTube ads have been Grammarly. Don't know how they can afford such blanket coverage. I've never used it.
Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#25Grammarly has been having an identity crisis ever since LLMs made grammar checking accessible to every company at a fraction of the cost. ChatGPT is killing a lot of companies and grammarly was the first collateral. This acquisition is concerning because Grammarly is well known for its bad privacy policy and how it's essentially a keylogger. Now that it has access to probably thousands of companies data hosted on Cod…
Grammarly may have been collateral damage, but the first target to be nuked was Chegg.
Students these days have no idea of the struggle.
Then again, I can't imagine the struggle of having to rely entirely on libraries pre-internet
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#26This sounds like a VC forced marriage. I'm like 90% sure that Coda and Grammarly are both under the same VC umbrella.
The post is quite strange, though. It exaggerates the deal in a very artificial way. For example, "My wife asked me how to think about this — is it a beginning, an end, something in between? I told her that it felt like a clear chapter mark: the end of chapter one. A fantastic opening act behind us, but with many chapters to be written in front of us.".
Maybe that passage itself was rewritten by an AI :)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Grammarly may have been collateral damage, but the first target to be nuked was Chegg.
Students these days have no idea of the struggle. Then again, I can't imagine the struggle of having to rely entirely on libraries pre-internet
As a 70's child I wouldn't call it a struggle, at least we didn't saw it like that.
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#28Re: Grammarly acquires Coda
#29In the PR, they use some of the ambiguity around the term AI to claim it's AI native. It isn't LLM native, but they indeed were using things that encompass AI. If anyone else thought of Panic, here's what happened with that Coda: https://panic.com/coda/
Awww. They've gone subscription model - because of course they have.
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#30I wish mergers were not possible. I feel like the merger/acquisition thing has gone way to far to make behemonth corporations that help no one but the rich.