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.A bit about me: I’m CEO of (formerly founder/CEO of
). Grammarly acquired Coda, and I became CEO, then we renamed the company to Superhuman in late 2025, and recently reintroduced Coda as Superhuman Docs. Before that, I spent a generation at Google (mostly on YouTube), and Microsoft (mostly on Office and Windows). I grew up in Virginia, went to MIT for college, where I met my wife, Anjuli. We have two wonderful daughters (in high school and college). Fun fact: I coached my daughters’ which qualified for World Championships in 4 of the last 7 years!I write regularly about a wide range of topics, and you can see my published docs on the . If you’re looking for a starting point, consider:
My current fascination obsession is with learning about . I was drawn to this topic after a chat with Bing Gordon, a friend and mentor, and have now interviewed over 1,000 leaders and companies about their rituals. I’m working on publishing this as a book. To read and contribute to early drafts, sign up
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Latest Highlights
Grammarly is now Superhuman!
In October 2025, we announced huge news:
We changed Grammarly’s company name to Superhuman and launched a new suite that includes Grammarly, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and our newest product, Superhuman Go.
This is a big step for us as we evolve into an AI-native productivity platform for apps and agents. With Grammarly, our job has always been to help people do their best work with clarity and confidence, and that philosophy hasn't changed. It's simply grown.
We spent the last 16 years turning people into super writers, and now we have the opportunity to help them become super humans. I’m incredibly excited about our next chapter, and you can read more in my blog post
.Introducing Superhuman Docs
We completely redesigned Coda to become Superhuman Docs, the best place for teams and AI to work together. Building on almost a decade of the product, giving Coda powerful new AI capabilities, new ways to work with your data, a fresh new look, and more, all under a new name to match. It's the docs, tables, and building blocks you rely on every day, now officially as part of the Superhuman family.
Superhuman acquires GPTZero
As AI-generated content becomes the norm, the value of knowing the origin of content only goes up. That’s a big part of why we acquired GPTZero, a leading AI detector. We have exciting plans for how we’ll bring GPTZero into the Superhuman suite, starting with making GPTZero’s authenticity tools available through Superhuman Go.
Super Shipped at Superhuman
We’ve been shipping a lot across all our products at Superhuman, and have a weekly video series sharing what just launched. I sat down with product folks across the team who gave a behind-the-scenes look at the new features and how they work.
Watch the first one on my , which covers a new orchestration model we launched in Superhuman Go!
Superhuman acquires Rows
We acquired Rows, a company that built technology connecting spreadsheets directly to business tools and brings AI into everyday data workflows. The Rows team joined Superhuman from Porto, Portugal, and will strengthen what Coda can enable for data-driven teams.
My episode on the Grit Podcast
I had a great time speaking with Joubin Mirzadegan on the Kleiner Perkins Grit Podcast, where we covered so many stories about grit and unpacked everything from the definition of AI agents to my early days at YouTube. It was a lot of fun and a great way to reflect on some career and product decisions. Check out the episode on or .
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Grammarly acquires Superhuman Mail
I’ve been a HUGE Superhuman Mail fan for 8+ years, and acquiring the company felt like an obvious fit for Grammarly. Email is already the #1 use case of Grammarly for our professional users (Grammarly revises over 50M emails per week), and Superhuman is a complete mindset shift in how to think about email. Together, we’ll create a new way of working where AI agents collaborate across the communication tools that people use every single day.
Grammarly closed $1B from General Catalyst
We closed $1 billion in growth financing from General Catalyst! General Catalyst has a longstanding partnership with Grammarly, and we’ll use this investment from GC’s Customer Value Fund to scale product innovation, sales and marketing, and strategic acquisitions.
Coda and Grammarly are merging to define a new era of AI-native productivity
After 10 years working to make Coda the blinking cursor of choice for teams, I’m excited to announce our next chapter...
Coda is merging with Grammarly, the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity.
Together, we will build the AI-native suite of the future. And I’m honored to lead the combined companies as CEO.
I share more detail in my , but both companies have a similar view of the future where AI will redefine every business application and workflow — and will reinvent productivity as we know it today into a place where humans and AI work together everywhere you get work done. Together, 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.
Presenting at Lenny & Friends Summit
I gave a talk at Lenny Rachitsky’s Lenny & Friends Summit about how we can 10x decisions with intentionally-designed rituals. I’ve been a huge fan of Lenny and his community for years, and it was amazing seeing such a dense group of talented product thinkers in one space.
The video came out great, and I’m excited to share it with everyone...
And if you want to dive in further, my Coda doc includes the , the full , as well as free templates for the rituals I discussed.
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Presenting at Figma Config 2024
Yuhki Yamashita (Figma CPO) and I enjoyed our joint presentation at so much that we came together again for —this time to talk about planning.
Planning often takes more time and effort than the actual execution...no one wants that. And I’ve heard so many product leaders say that “planning is broken.” So as we sat down to decide the topic of our Config talk this year, Figma’s CPO, Yuhki Yamashita, and I decided to study how world-class teams approach planning.
We shared our insights—as well as teams’ unique rituals—that will hopefully help “unbreak” planning at your company. And if you’re intrigued (and/or confused?) about why planning is WOOOOOOOOOW... here’s a hint: count the number of O’s. :)
Watch the video, read the script, and take a peek behind the scenes at how we used Figma Slides to put everything together.
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