Noam Lovinsky

Who they are

Noam Lovinsky is CPO at Grammarly — co-founded Skobee and Episodic, and is now steering product strategy through Grammarly's acquisition of his former employer, Superhuman.

Person

Noam studied Computer Science and Economics at UC Berkeley, then cut his teeth at Plumtree Software before heading into big-platform product work at YouTube and Google, where he ran apps, search, discovery, personalization, and recommendations. He co-founded Skobee and later founded and led Episodic as CEO — and separately founded Earl — before returning to the operator track. He spent time at Facebook/Meta as Senior Director of Product Management, then joined Thumbtack as CPO, and then moved to Superhuman as CPO before joining Grammarly in 2023. Possibly — the Thumbtack and Superhuman stints each lasted only a few years, suggesting he accelerates quickly into CPO-level roles and moves when the mission is done. He writes occasionally on Medium at medium.com/@noaml and has been a guest on Lenny's Newsletter ("The happiness and pain of product management"), the 20VC/20Product podcast ("Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI"), and the Product School podcast ("Grammarly CPO on Product Expansion through Acquisitions") — his public voice centers on PM career philosophy, the changing role of product managers in an AI-native world, and management philosophy. He also contributed a piece to Business Insider on the underrated upside of being layered under a new manager. The through-line: a founder who became a serial CPO, always at companies where communication or marketplace product is the core bet.

Company

The most recent move is Grammarly's July 2025 acquisition of Superhuman — the email client Noam himself previously ran as CPO — folding it into an expanding AI productivity platform. That follows Grammarly's December 2024 acquisition of collaborative-docs pioneer Coda, which brought Coda's CEO Shishir Mehrotra in as Grammarly's new CEO, signaling a deliberate pivot from writing assistant to full productivity suite. In May 2025, Grammarly raised $1 billion in non-dilutive growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, earmarked for product development, strategic M&A, and sales and marketing expansion — and its valuation held at $13 billion, the same figure set in November 2021. The company's AI writing assistant already reaches over 40 million daily users across more than 500,000 applications and websites, and GrammarlyGO — the generative AI feature for drafting, rewriting, and ideating — launched in March 2023, the same month Noam joined.

Market

Grammarly leads the AI-powered writing assistance category against a crowded field: QuillBot, Compose.ai, and Turnitin on the focused-tool end, and Microsoft Copilot and Google's AI writing capabilities on the platform end. The broader context is a generative AI funding surge — $59.6 billion invested in AI startups in Q1 2025 alone — which has intensified competition but, per the company's own framing, has not dislodged Grammarly's leadership position. The Coda and Superhuman acquisitions are Grammarly's answer to that pressure: expand the surface area from writing correction into the full communication and productivity workflow.

Network

Noam has been featured by Lenny Rachitsky on Lenny's Newsletter and podcast, which puts him in the same orbit as Lenny's broader PM leadership network. He posted on LinkedIn about Coda's funding round, suggesting an investor or board-adjacent relationship with that company predating the acquisition. His Superhuman connection runs deep — he served as CPO there before Grammarly acquired it in July 2025.

Lenny Rachitsky· Author, Lenny's Newsletter
Shishir Mehrotra· CEO, Grammarly (joined via Coda acquisition)

How they likely show up

Serial CPO track (Thumbtack → Superhuman → Grammarly) with founder stints in between → moves fast into executive ownership, likely expects the same decisiveness from collaborators.
Founded Skobee, Episodic, and Earl alongside an operator career → high agency; probably runs experiments and bets in parallel rather than sequencing everything.
Public speaking on 'Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI' → willing to take a pointed, possibly contrarian stance on where product craft is going; not just a trend-follower.
BS in Computer Science and Economics at Berkeley → comfortable reasoning from both technical constraints and market logic; likely bridges eng and business in conversation naturally.
Occasional public writing (Medium, Lenny's Newsletter, Business Insider) rather than high-frequency posting → deliberate about what he puts in writing; probably expects conversations to have a point.
Acquisition of his former employer Superhuman now sits under his product remit → he has unusually direct context on that product's internals, which will shape how he thinks about integration priorities.

Conversation tips

→ Reference the Superhuman acquisition specifically — he ran that product as CPO, so he'll have a layered view on what it means to now own the integration from the Grammarly side.
→ His Lenny's Newsletter piece on 'the happiness and pain of product management' is a good anchor — ask what's shifted in that emotional calculus since he moved into the AI-platform era.
→ He's gone on record questioning whether the design phase is dying in an AI world — lead with a specific take on that rather than a generic AI question.
→ He's a founder-turned-CPO, not a lifer PM — he'll likely engage more with build/buy/bet decisions than with process frameworks.
→ Don't pitch him on ideas without a clear product rationale; the Computer Science + Economics background means he'll immediately stress-test both the build and the business case.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on Grammarly's July 2025 acquisition of Superhuman — he was CPO there before joining Grammarly, so he's now integrating a product he helped build. That's a rare vantage point and worth naming directly.
Reference his 20VC/20Product appearance asking 'Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI' — it signals you know he has a specific, debatable thesis about where product craft is heading, not just a general interest in AI.
Mention Episodic — he founded and led it as CEO before returning to the operator track. It's a signal that you've done more than skim his LinkedIn, and the founder-to-CPO arc is genuinely interesting territory.

Discovery questions

You ran Superhuman as CPO and now Grammarly has acquired it — what does it feel like to own the integration of a product you helped shape from the other side?
Your 20VC talk asked whether the design phase is dead in an AI world — where has your thinking landed since then, and how is that changing how you structure the product team at Grammarly?
Grammarly has gone from writing assistant to acquiring Coda and Superhuman in under a year — how do you maintain a coherent product thesis when the surface area is expanding that fast?

Avoid

Don't treat his Grammarly role as purely a writing-tools job — he's in the middle of building a full AI productivity platform through M&A, and framing it narrowly will signal you haven't done the work.

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