{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Luba Show","title":"$13 Billion CEO Thinks Most People Shouldn't Start A Company","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/fef33ecc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4547,"description":"Today I walk with Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly. Shishir co-founded Coda and sold it to Grammarly, built skippable ads at YouTube into a product that went from $0 to $1 billion in 18 months, and sits on the boards of Spotify and Walmart, and now he runs a company with over $700 million in revenue. He talks about why most people should not start a company, and why he gave up ownership of Coda without any startup pride.\nWe get into:\n- Why the right startup idea should feel like a curse, and why he tells students not to keep a list of startup ideas\n- The misspelled Vinod Khosla email that made $500,000 land in his account and moved his company to Silicon Valley in a week\n- Joining YouTube when it lost money on every single view, and board meetings with Eric Schmidt about shutting it down\n- The skip button every salesperson said would kill revenue, and how it went from $0 to $1 billion in 18 months\n- Selling Coda to Grammarly, and why he needs a sense of purpose more than a sense of ownership\nso much more!\n𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒\n(00:00) Trailer\n(01:07) Shishir Mehrotra, CEO, Superhuman\n(01:32) Making the Lego robotics world championships four times with his daughters\n(08:59) His dad only paid for majors where the books are 50 years old\n(12:18) Why most people should not start a company\n(14:47) The Vinod Khosla email that moved $500,000 in one afternoon\n(20:15) Joining YouTube when it lost money on every view\n(25:50) Board meetings with Eric Schmidt about shutting YouTube down\n(35:20) The skip button that went from $0 to $1B in 18 months\n(40:30) Susan Wojcicki and the 55/45 creator revenue split\n(45:54) Sketching Coda on a notepad by his bed\n(53:52) Why he sold Coda to Grammarly\n(59:30) Purpose over ownership and zero startup pride\n(1:01:45) The bundling theory he built with Daniel Ek at Spotify\n(1:04:49) Superhuman's AI agents and 60% of auto-drafted emails sent\n(1:09:37) Why AI will make teams bigger\n(1:15:32) Outro\nFollow Shishir...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/YqzaHw3n0IkFjbaJ3P1-kJdgx8xK8KM9hpwhFomu37c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNTdk/NDE1ZWFmMmZiMGJk/YWZmODg0ZDZmMDYy/M2Q1Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}