Grant Lee

The New York Times profiled a start-up with 28 employees serving nearly 50 million users. That company is us. The traditional startup playbook: raise massive funding, hire hundreds of employees, and worry about profitability "later." But there's another way. Everyone at Gamma…

Sundial has raised $23M to build the analytics platform for the AI era! Our work is personal to me (though many have asked: Why? Aren't you into intuition and taste and experience which is ultimately unmeasurable?) But hear me out: I love building, and I have a deep respect for…

Episode 8 of How I AI will teach you how to be more creative (and fun!) with AI. @thisiszach, Head of Design at @MeetGamma gives a step-by-step guide to: - analyzing hundreds of pieces of customer feedback with @ChatGPTapp - working with @midjourney as art director - editing…

In other news... who's building?

The most dangerous lie in startups: you can buy your way to product-market fit. Truth: 80% of the job is building something so good people can't shut up about it. Marketing, fundraising, hiring … all noise until you've earned organic spread.

"How can we beat them?" produces fear. "What can we learn from them?" produces innovation. One question shrinks your world. The other expands it.

We launched AI image editing in Gamma. A feature this powerful deserves its own video. So I watched every Tom Cruise running clip I could find and we started filming. If you want to learn more or are simply interested in watching me run through the streets of San Francisco,…

So pumped to have Diana on the team! She knows our space better than anyone, and more importantly, she shares our long-term ambition to create a new standard. For those that know her, she is simply one of the most energizing people to be around, and we’re so lucky we get to…

50M users. $50M ARR. All built by a tiny team…on just $23M raised. And now I get to be a part of it. It’s the first day of school all over again: today is my first day at @meetgamma. After 4.5 unforgettable years at @matrixvc, I’m joining the team at Gamma to lead core product…

If your startup is inventing a new category or challenging the status quo in a meaningful way, keep the team small for as long as possible. Constraints beget creativity. Grow too quickly and you will lose the black magic needed to reach pmf.

At 28 employees, we hit tens of millions in ARR and nearly 50M users. Everyone told us this was impossible. "You need to hire faster." But what if the conventional wisdom about scaling is fundamentally wrong? When building Gamma, we learned about the Japanese concept of…

the thing about being a startup founder is you still do your own stunts

"Can we just hire someone to do that?!" is what most founders say when they start scaling. At Gamma, we did the opposite. When we were just seven people with no marketing team, I didn't rush to post a job listing. Instead, I became our marketer - working with agencies, managing…

Has anyone used Gamma (AI presentations platform)? If so, from 0-10 (no 7 allowed), how strongly would you recommend and why? Thanks! 🙏

The next billion-dollar company will be built by a team of <50. A tight-knit tribe that takes advantage of the limits of human connection (Dunbar’s research).

I just watched Duolingo's CTO reveal how they've compressed 12 years of work into just 12 months. The numbers are unbelievable: 148 new language courses created in one year. For context, their previous 100+ courses took them 12 entire years. That's not optimization. That's…

In the current AI gold rush, I've watched countless startup teams chase capabilities their customers simply aren't ready for. They fall in love with the technology rather than the problems it solves. Meanwhile, their runway shortens and user adoption stalls. Here's the…

"The best startup hire isn't the expert who's mastered one thing. It's the versatile player who can learn anything." Conventional wisdom says companies must hire specialists as they scale. At Gamma, we've discovered the opposite builds more resilient teams. Specialists create…

What if the most important person in your company won the lottery tomorrow and retired? Could your team still function? The "lottery factor" is the most important resilience metric your company is actively ignoring. A founder friend recently shared a painful story: Their lone…

"That's not my job" is the mindset killing innovation at too many companies. It happens like clockwork: Team identifies gap → Someone suggests adding headcount → Leadership agrees → Project stalls → Months pass → Opportunity evolves or disappears. By the time the "proper…

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