Before AI could carry the idea, Max Lytvyn built the smallest useful version of it. The result was a 16-year lesson in patience, distribution, and the profitable art of being early.
At Grammarly, the Ukrainian engineer taught software to notice what writers miss. As he stepped away from its operating team, he turned the same practical instinct toward vehicles, repairs and a more immediate kind of communication.

Before he was selling AI’s future, Alex Gay was selling education software. Two decades later, Otter.ai has handed him a harder brief: turn all the talk inside a company into a story people can use.

Rahul Vohra is a British-Indian entrepreneur and the founder of Superhuman, the cult-favorite AI email client acquired by Grammarly in July 2025. He pioneered the quantitative product-market fit framework that became the most-shared article in First Round Review history, and applied video game design principles to productivity software. Before Superhuman, he co-founded Rapportive (sold to LinkedIn in 2012) and coded RuneScape's legendary 'Monkey Madness I' quest as a 21-year-old intern. He also co-runs Todd & Rahul Capital, a $50M+ angel fund with 120+ portfolio companies.