How a $2B AI Startup Is Reinventing Presentations
Minus One with Grant Lee, Founder & CEO of Gamma
Grant Lee, cofounder and CEO of Gamma, joins South Park Commons GP Jonathan Brebner to share how the "worst idea ever"—an investor's words before he hung up—became a $2B AI unicorn taking on PowerPoint and Google Slides.
Grant gets into what most founders get wrong when competing against entrenched incumbents, why hiring “painfully slowly” was one of Gamma's biggest advantages, and how to build a team where hard problems feel like play. He also covers how Gamma survived the Silicon Valley Bank collapse with two weeks to go before a make-or-break launch, and why founders who want to build an audience online have to push through “cringe valley” first. Watch select snippets below.
Gamma isn’t focused on competing with other startups, they’re changing how people create presentations in the first place. The real challenge is behavior change.
Early discomfort isn't a sign you're doing something wrong. When you’re sharpening storytelling skills, you have to go through “cringe valley” first. Grant’s audience is now a key growth channel for Gamma.
Three years ago, SVB collapsed two weeks before Gamma’s planned launch. The team earned a few resilience points in the process.
Grant’s Minus One Journey: Gammafied
Minus One is series about the winding journeys the world's most interesting people take to becoming great—and what they do when figuring out a question we all face: What's Next? Because before you launch at Zero, you have to figure out what to launch at Minus One. Hosted by South Park Commons Partners.