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Shashir Mehrotra

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
694 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

So you might be in a web app.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

So it could be Gmail.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

It could be Google Docs.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

It could be Coda.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

It could be Notion.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

You could be in a desktop app.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

That could be

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Apple Notes, that could be Slack, that could be whatever app you're using, could be every mobile application.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

We have for every one of those applications, we figured out the right way to observe what you're doing, annotate it in a way that is unobtrusive to you and to the application, and to make changes on your behalf.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Doing that everywhere is the proposition.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

As you jump from tool to tool, yeah, there's different types of AI in each one.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Most of them actually don't have that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Like I said, we see a million unique surfaces a day, and the ones that do don't feel like one integrated experience.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

That's why we have about 40 million daily active users, and that's what they use us for.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Yeah, and becoming more intelligent is certainly part of it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I mean, I think for many people, it's just that one familiar experience that really feels like that virtual human working right next to you.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I mean, it's both.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

And if we think about Grammarly, I think Grammarly is both the ever-present, it's very important, and very high-quality grammar results.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

As we split the product into parts, and we said we're going to take the platform layer of Grammarly and we're going to turn it into a platform, that's what we call Go, that's about allowing other people to create agents and experiences that provide a high-quality experience that we can make ubiquitous for them.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Yeah, I mean, I think we have a lot of different thoughts on how to make good decisions.