Grammarly acquires Superhuman
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Grammarly acquires Superhuman
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Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#2This feels like a pattern of grammarly becoming a holdco / following the Salesforce playbook. Find companies with
- solid but not breakout growth (and probably slowing)
- a loyal cult following
- raised at too high a valuation in the peak era
- talented teams
- still founder led by strong product thinkers
Salesforce did this with Quip, Slack, etc.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#3My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. The history is they are effectively abandoned and/or shut down on the order of weeks and months not years. See Dropbox/Mailbox.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#4This feels like a pattern of grammarly becoming a holdco / following the Salesforce playbook. Find companies with - solid but not breakout growth (and probably slowing) - a loyal cult following - raised at too high a valuation in the peak era - talented teams - still founder led by strong product thinkers Salesforce did this with Quip, Slack, etc.
It's not a bad play, like PE rollups but arguably with more potential for success from a "founder/startup friendly" perspective. PE, historically, is very good at stripping/optimizing/etc (think Bending Spoons), but I think there is magic in startups PE simply does not have that allows for a different, yet more successful, outcome (growing vs cutting your way to financial success).
We should see more of this as large, profitable startups have grown into long term private companies with no need to go public.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#5Grammarly is one of the tools I pay for, and I am worried about the security risks of using it.
Really wish there was an alternative that:
1) Does local processing (local LLM?) instead of sending all my data to their server.
2) Had a lightweight Chrome extension that didn't inject many MBs of scripts on
each page.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#6> Grammarly's acquisition of Superhuman follows its recent $1 billion funding from General Catalyst, which gives it dry powder to create a collection of AI-powered workplace tools.
Dry powder to do what?! Is this americanism? I've been here for over 8 years and every month I find some wording that's just bizarre, like as if there was a competition for ways in how to confuse someone.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#7Grammarly is one of the tools I pay for, and I am worried about the security risks of using it. Really wish there was an alternative that: 1) Does local processing (local LLM?) instead of sending all my data to their server. 2) Had a lightweight Chrome extension that didn't inject many MBs of scripts on each page.
Feels like that'd be trivial to build, biggest issue is having to ship large files (LLM weights), but maybe CNNs would be enough, I'm guessing Grammarly started with CNNs or similar?
What are you using Grammarly for, is it just spell/grammar checking or something more? Is the UX particularly good? Personally I tried it some years ago but didn't understand/see what is/was special about it.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#8> Grammarly's acquisition of Superhuman follows its recent $1 billion funding from General Catalyst, which gives it dry powder to create a collection of AI-powered workplace tools. Dry powder to do what?! Is this americanism? I've been here for over 8 years and every month I find some wording that's just bizarre, like as if there was a competition for ways in how to confuse someone.
“Dry powder” is cash on hand to fund acquisitions. Yes, it is one of the worst businessisms.
Re: Grammarly acquires Superhuman
#9Grammarly is one of the tools I pay for, and I am worried about the security risks of using it. Really wish there was an alternative that: 1) Does local processing (local LLM?) instead of sending all my data to their server. 2) Had a lightweight Chrome extension that didn't inject many MBs of scripts on each page.
Harper checks a lot of your boxes and is getting better all the time: https://writewithharper.com/
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