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Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

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Post by skeeter2020 »

aabhay wrote: post #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 pa…

Especially "acquistion" - he continually presents both sides as peers, collaborating - even mentions "merging: - but this never happens. Maybe the Coda people will eventually, someday emerge as the leaders, but this would be incredibly atypical. Even when two equal size companies merge someone is being acquired. Majority of Coda leadership will be gone in 6-12 months.

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#42

Post by g33ky »

zusammen wrote: post #32
aabhay wrote: post #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 pa…

This is how the startup life is sold to youngsters—million-dollar conversations just happen—and it’s amusing to see the myth is still alive.

Sometimes they do.

>> zuck pinged me to say "i'm not sure if this is a good idea yet, but i think maybe facebook should buy instagram, what do you think?" [0]

The next conversations also read as if they were happening over lunch, albeit with lawyers whispering approved language into each participant's ear [1]

[0] https://www.techemails.com/p/instagram-cofounder-on-mark-zuc...

[1] https://www.threads.net/@techemails/post/C_od8rsvuiO

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#43

Post by skeeter2020 »

nomilk wrote: post #39
lewisjoe wrote: post #3

Grammarly 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…

Is Grammarly anything more than glorified autocorrect? Curious if anyone here uses it, and if so, what value it provides (I've been bombarded with its ads for years, but could never see what value it provides). Even a quick search of its website gives inanely basic examples (like correcting Ive to I've ) [1]. [1] https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047727871...

My CTO uses it, which is frankly, terrifying. We'll be in a shared screen session editing slides for a board meeting or very sensitive docs, and their little UI prompts are shining away.

...and it's not like it improves his grammar or spelling - they're still terrible!

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#44

Post by skeeter2020 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #30

I 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.

ECONOMIES OF SCALE!!! SYNERGY!!!

Just going through one right now; can't tell if the sickly sweet, positive executive speak is an act or they honestly believe it.

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#45

Post by aaronharnly »

nomilk wrote: post #39
lewisjoe wrote: post #3

Grammarly 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…

Is Grammarly anything more than glorified autocorrect? Curious if anyone here uses it, and if so, what value it provides (I've been bombarded with its ads for years, but could never see what value it provides). Even a quick search of its website gives inanely basic examples (like correcting Ive to I've ) [1]. [1] https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047727871...

I myself do not, but some people I know who are intelligent and articulate and also dyslexic struggle to get their thoughts expressed in writing adequately for professional life, especially in the “everyone live co-editing” environment these days. Many of them report Grammarly being a valuable tool for them to feel like they’re on a more even playing field.

So yes, fancy autocorrect, but apparently better enough to matter for them.

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#46

Post by jjcm »

dietzchi wrote: post #11

From what I can tell, Grammarly bought coda for 150M and a ceo position forced by the VC’s.. it was their only option. Yes I agree they are under the same VC’s. Grammarly has a leadership problem, and coda has a money problem. shishir has a huge influence in Silicon Valley due to his YouTube days. So yes, two companies struggling to survive. One has reputable leader living off his past success (not current) and one c…

Where are you seeing the 150M number from?

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#47

Post by soneca »

nomilk wrote: post #39
lewisjoe wrote: post #3

Grammarly 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…

Is Grammarly anything more than glorified autocorrect? Curious if anyone here uses it, and if so, what value it provides (I've been bombarded with its ads for years, but could never see what value it provides). Even a quick search of its website gives inanely basic examples (like correcting Ive to I've ) [1]. [1] https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047727871...

Having English as a second language, it was essential for me for a long time. I never understood why they never marketed to that public.

I don’t pay for it anymore because I am more comfortable in my current company where I am sure my colleagues won’t be bothered by frequent mistakes and misspellings. Also, for the eventual more important text that I want to be grammatically perfect, there is free ChatGPT now.

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#48

Post by sib »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #41
aabhay wrote: post #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 pa…

Especially "acquistion" - he continually presents both sides as peers, collaborating - even mentions "merging: - but this never happens. Maybe the Coda people will eventually, someday emerge as the leaders, but this would be incredibly atypical. Even when two equal size companies merge someone is being acquired. Majority of Coda leadership will be gone in 6-12 months.

>> Majority of Coda leadership will be gone in 6-12 months

Well, in this case, the new CEO of the combined company is from Coda, so perhaps a little less likely than otherwise...

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

#49

Post by sib »

avree wrote: post #6
janalsncm wrote: post #5

> And we also discussed the leadership structure, and agreed that I would lead the joint company as CEO. Pretty interesting twist. It’s almost as if Coda acquired Grammarly.

Two failing companies joining forces to fail together, a tale as old as time.

"Two turkeys rarely give birth to an eagle"

Re: Grammarly acquires Coda

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

wslh wrote: post #37
notatoad wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not that strange, it's just corporate-speak. that's what all the people writing blog posts on linkedin glorifying their 80-hour weeks sound like.

I have some experience in writing, reading, and editing. While there isn't a single, definitive writing style, it's common to use positive, concise corporate-speak in specific places. However, this piece employs it repeatedly, as seen in phrases like: - "Together, we will build the AI-native suite of the future" - "This represents an opportunity for dramatic acceleration of the Coda product and our mission" - "We pla…

> While there isn't a single, definitive writing style, it's common to use positive, concise corporate-speak in specific places.

In my observation, this is much more common in the USA. In other countries, when using English, this is already less emphasized, and when some other language is used, the writing style becomes even less "exalted".

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