New AI products are rapidly changing the landscape for businesses. This is especially true for the writing tool @grammarly. The $13 billion dollar software company’s CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury has taken the helm in the midst of a profound disruption. Host Jeff Berman talks to Rahul about how his time at Google helped prepare him for this moment, why he’s doubling down on building trust with customers, and how he thinks AI will shape the future of work.
Chapters:
00:00 Introducing Grammarly
02:35 Improving the world via tech
04:47 How Grammarly tailors its response to your goals
07:16 How communication increases productivity
09:58 Joining Grammarly
12:20 Rahul’s AI journey
17:21 How Rahul became Grammarly’s CEO
19:27 Reimagining the future of Grammarly
22:11 How Rahul works alongside Grammarly’s co-founders
27:45 Building trust amongst customers
29:50 How to deploy AI ethically
35:14 Will AI create — or take away — jobs?
37:36 Educating schools about using AI
42:15 Facing a new wave of competition
46:25 “I would like to bet on open source as the future of AI”
48:29 Pulling out of Russia after the Ukraine invasion
51:25 The future of work