Grammarly Inc.
Leadership History
3 leaders · 2011 to present
Shishir Mehrotra is the CEO of Grammarly, in the role since 2025. The first chief executive was Brad Hoover, from 2011.
| Name | Role | From | To | Years in role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shishir Mehrotra | Chief Executive Officer | 2025 | Present | 1 |
| Rahul Roy-Chowdhury | Chief Executive Officer | 2023 | 2025 | 2 |
| Brad Hoover | Former Chief Executive Officer | 2011 | 2023 | 12 |
Grammarly is one of the most widely used writing tools on the internet. It started as a grammar checker for students, grew to tens of millions of users through a free Chrome extension launched in 2015, and added enterprise plans in 2017. In 2025 the company renamed itself after Superhuman, the email app it acquired. The Grammarly name now refers to the writing product, which sits alongside Superhuman Docs (formerly Coda), Superhuman Mail and the Superhuman Go assistant. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The incredibly dominant AI writing assistant was founded in Ukraine in 2009, aggressively growing from a simple spell-checker into a massive, highly ubiquitous platform that fundamentally alters how the entire corporate world communicates.
Grammarly runs a freemium subscription model. The free browser extension and apps give basic spelling and grammar fixes and pull in tens of millions of users. Revenue comes from people upgrading to the paid individual plan (Premium, later renamed Pro) for full-sentence rewrites, tone changes and more generative AI prompts, and from organizations buying team, business and enterprise plans that add admin controls, style guides, brand tones, analytics and security features. Grammarly for Education sells licenses to schools and universities. Since the 2025 rebrand, the parent company Superhuman also sells Coda/Superhuman Docs, Superhuman Mail and Superhuman Go, and bundles them into suite plans. The company does not publish a revenue breakdown by product or customer type.
Chief Executive Officer
2025 – Present
1 year (current)
Mehrotra, the founder of Coda, joined Grammarly's board to provide highly strategic guidance on how to pivot Grammarly from a simple consumer browser extension into a massive enterprise B2B platform.
As a highly influential Board Member, he helped guide the company's aggressive, multi-billion dollar valuation rounds and its push into generative AI features.
Chief Executive Officer
2023 – 2025
2 years
Roy-Chowdhury aggressively pushed the launch of 'GrammarlyGO' (its generative AI tool), attempting to rapidly defend the company's massive user base against the existential threat of ChatGPT.
Appointed CEO in 2023, the former Google executive is tasked with completely reinventing Grammarly from a mere 'spell checker' into an enterprise-wide communication assistant.
Former Chief Executive Officer
2011 – 2023
12 years
Hoover architected the absolutely brilliant 'freemium' growth model, aggressively utilizing massive YouTube advertising campaigns to capture tens of millions of free users and driving massive paid conversions.
Serving as CEO from 2011 to 2023, he took a tiny, self-funded Ukrainian startup and transformed it into a massive $13 billion Silicon Valley unicorn before handing the reins to Roy-Chowdhury.
Grammarly's core writing product competes with AI writing tools that come built into Microsoft 365 (Copilot), Google Workspace (Gemini) and Apple devices (Apple Intelligence), plus free chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. Because those can rewrite text at no extra cost, it is harder to sell a separate writing subscription. The company also has to fold four acquired products (Coda, Superhuman Mail, Superhuman Go and GPTZero) into one suite under a new brand without confusing the users who know the Grammarly name, while paying the rising cost of running generative AI for tens of millions of daily users.
Shishir Mehrotra, co-founder of Coda and a former YouTube product executive, has been CEO since Grammarly acquired Coda in 2025. He now leads the company under its new name, Superhuman.
Brad Hoover led the company from 2011 to 2023. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, a former Google Chrome product lead, was CEO from May 2023 until Mehrotra took over in 2025.
Under Mehrotra the company completed the Superhuman Mail acquisition (July 2025), renamed itself Superhuman (October 2025), launched Superhuman Go, rebuilt Coda as Superhuman Docs and agreed to acquire GPTZero (June 2026).
He pushed the company into generative AI, building on the GrammarlyGO features launched in 2023, and expanded enterprise sales before handing over to Mehrotra.
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury serves as CEO. He took over in 2023 from Brad Hoover (the highly successful investor who ran the company for over a decade). Roy-Chowdhury, a former massive product executive at Google Chrome, was specifically elevated to CEO to aggressively pivot Grammarly beyond simple editing and into full generative AI (GrammarlyGO).
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