James Fox

Co-Founder @GammaApp. Ex-Software Engineer @Optimizely. Volunteer with @JoeBiden Tech Team. Warriors fan 🏀. Tech Nerd 💻. Always looking to travel ✈️ 🌏.

[Gamma @GammaApp]

Gamma is now on @claudeai!

You can generate a presentation with Gamma directly in your Claude chat. Connect Gamma and instantly turn any conversation into something you'd share with your team or present to the world.

You can also:
- Connect to Gmail, Slack, or HubSpot ("turn this email into a deck")
- Fully edit your presentation in Gamma for any tweaks

Take that research task, strategy proposal, or project summary and turn it into a polished presentation.

Think with Claude. Visualize with Gamma.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Gamma is wild:
- Just 50 people
- Generating $100M ARR
- Valued at over $2B
- Profitable for 15+ consecutive months
- With more cash in the bank than they raised
- In a category that most VCs dismissed

In fact, one investor told @thisisgrantlee his idea was “the dumbest idea he had ever heard.”

Today, @GammaApp is one of the hottest AI startups in the world, and unlike most fast-growing AI startups, they're a model for how to build a sustainable, profitable, and durable AI product and brand.

In my conversation with @thisisgrantlee, we discuss:
🔸 How Gamma discovered product-market fit
🔸 Their process for building a “word-of-mouth growth machine”
🔸 How they leveraged more than 1,000 micro-influencers (instead of a few big names)
🔸 Why focusing on the “first 30 seconds” transformed their business
🔸 Their pricing strategy that led to profitability within months
🔸 How Grant thinks about building a durable “GPT wrapper” business

Listen now 👇
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[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

Today, as shared by The New York Times, we’re announcing two things:

>Our Series B at a $2.1B valuation led by @sarahdingwang at @a16z.
>Reaching $100M ARR, profitably, with a team of just 50 people. That's $2M ARR per employee.

PowerPoint was invented before the first website, before the Game Boy, before the Berlin Wall fell.

But Gamma, and our 70 million users, are proof that an AI-native company can disrupt a category everyone assumed was won.

30 million gammas are created every single month, as we fight hard to become a new standard for communication.

But we’re not stopping. We’re expanding our plans for businesses. We’re building out a full visual storytelling platform. And today, we’re releasing our API to the general public. So you can plug Gamma into wherever work happens.

And to celebrate, we’re also sharing our first ever prompt guide backed by research into how our most successful users use Gamma to automate presentations, websites, and content in minutes.

[James Fox @jamisonfox]

Big milestone for @GammaApp today: we’ve raised a $68M Series B led by Sarah Wang at @a16z.

It’s been humbling to see this company grow into something real, all thanks to our team and the trust of over 70 million users around the world.

We’re hiring across engineering, product, design, and more.

Huge thanks to @thisisgrantlee, @thatsjonsense, @sarahdingwang, @a16z, @accel, @southpkcommons, @scriptcapital, and @uncorkcapital!

[James Fox @jamisonfox]

I'm super excited to usher in the next era of Gamma!

And I'm so proud of what our small team has accomplished over the last couple months. 50M+ users all over the world, $50M+ in ARR, all built by a team just now crossing 50 employees.

And yes, we're still hiring across the board 😀. If you're looking to take the next step in your career with a team that values fun, craft, and impact, we're looking for engineering leaders to partner closely with me as we grow, full-stack engineers for our world-class AI team, and more.

Take the new Gamma for a spin today and let me know what you think!

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

Excited to introduce: Gamma 3.0

A generational leap for the world's most popular AI presentation tool.

Two major changes:

1. Gamma Agent - with one prompt, you can make sweeping edits across the presentation.

a. Say 'make it more visual' and it will scan each slide for data that could be visualized better.

b. Upload a screenshot of rough notes you want to turn into a slide and it will synthesize the info, search the web to fill gaps, and make a table for you to match your brand or theme.

2. Gamma API

Say you have a sales deck you want to reuse as a template. You could build a Zapier workflow to convert all of your meeting transcripts into personalized decks, automatically sent after every customer meeting.

Bonus:

We’re also launching Team & Business plans, bringing visual storytelling to organizations of all sizes, and a new Ultra plan for our power users looking to push the boundaries even further.

PowerPoint has over a billion users, but the vast majority struggle to use it effectively. Why is that?

Because making PPTs is still slow and tedious.

We want Gamma to feel different.

Our goal is to both lower the floor and raise the ceiling, so that anyone can get their ideas out there.

Can’t wait to see what you make with 3.0.

[James Fox @jamisonfox]

@btn0s @rauchg What do you recommend for bot and abuse prevention?

[Jon Noronha @thatsjonsense]

Since launching https://t.co/0UB1mUaPYS 3 wks ago, daily usage is up over 30x 📈🔥🥵 Exciting times but also a lot to handle!

We've been fighting scaling fires just about everywhere - but the one bright spot has been @vercel. Grateful for a service we don't have to sweat over.

[Gamma @GammaApp]

Chat and you shall receive.

Whenever you hit a wall or are in need of some inspiration, just ask Gamma AI for help.

[Dan Siroker @dsiroker]

This is the future of presentations!

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

This is insane 🤯

ChatGPT for presenting ideas beautifully.

Entrepreneurs, Designers will love this.
By @thisisgrantlee

[Brian Truax @btruax]

The best #AI tool for me this week is @gammaapp.

It will make prezos & websites for you. And it's REALLY good (for early AI):
- Support for custom fonts
- Custom themes
- Fully AI-guided creation process
- Ability to pull in highly relevant images

https://t.co/ZDJa8plVYF

[Glo Robinson @glo_robinson]

I’ve tried 100+ AI tools. From a PM lens, I wrote a thread to breakdown how one startup successfully implemented an AI user flow, step by step. Read how they did it:

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

@ParikPatelCFA https://t.co/HrkL4w2vG7 Just launched today.

We welcome McKinsey consultants, they can now focus on more important stuff.

https://t.co/jbEmcU5uwA

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

The most valuable skill in business is about to become obsolete.

Designing a killer slide deck used to take days. Now AI can do it in seconds for anyone.

Introducing Gamma: your AI design partner for presenting ideas beautifully.

Launching today at https://t.co/HrkL4w2vG7

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

We're a finalist for Product of the Year!

ChatGPT might have this one in the bag 😅 but I know the rest of us underdogs on the ballot would still love your support

Please take a minute to vote for all of your favorite products - it would mean a lot ❤️https://t.co/zpeTvWK3zc

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

10 incredible websites that will revolutionize your next presentation (and will cost you nothing):

[Alex Brogan @_alexbrogan]

https://t.co/1hzVWpuYW8

Dread creating slide decks?

Meet Gamma.

You’ll write it like a doc and present it like a deck—and it’ll be done in half the time.

It’s like @NotionHQ and @canva had a baby.

Best features:
• One click deck restyling
• Flexible templates

[Product Hunt 😸 @ProductHunt]

Build, launch, learn, repeat 🔁

[James Fox @jamisonfox]

Super excited to be the #1 product on Product Hunt right now! Check us out and help keep the momentum going 🎉

https://t.co/1TH6EoPUJ7

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

Every year, half a billion people create PowerPoint decks.

This past year, we've been working on a completely new approach to presentations and decks in private beta. While we're still super early, we're excited to launch publicly on Product Hunt today!

https://t.co/PTxir41jTY

[Whelan Boyd @whelan_boyd]

No more powerpoint or G-slides for me 😍

Let's explode @thatsjonsense @jamisonfox @thisisgrantlee @_aliabbasrizvi @crocophant @thisiszach