Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit Podcast
Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit Podcast
Sandhya Hegde, Unusual Ventures
Writer’s product-market fit journey: May Habib on taking on ChatGPT Enterprise
31 minutes Posted Oct 16, 2023 at 10:00 am.
The early product vision for Writer
The transformation of the enterprise AI buyer
Security and compliance in AI models
Writer’s approach to addressing hallucinations
Why May and the Writer team had deep conviction in Enterprise AI
The next big horizon for Gen AI and Writer
May Habib’s journey as a CEO
Building a culture of curiosity at Writer
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Full episode transcript: https://www.unusual.vc/post/writers-product-market-fit-journey
Started in 2020, Writer is an enterprise-grade generative AI platform for larger, security-conscious companies. Writer has over 150 customers, including teams at UnitedHealthcare, Uber and Accenture. Last valued at over $500M, Writer makes it easy for enterprises to build internal apps that generate a variety of content from sales enablement to blog posts. 
In this episode, Sandhya Hegde joins Writer’s co-founder and CEO May Habib to discuss the company’s path to product-market fit.
Join us as we discuss:
1: 30 The origin story behind the founding of Writer
Sandhya Hegde is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in modern SaaS companies with a focus on AI. Previously an early executive at Amplitude, Sandhya is a product-led growth (PLG) coach and mentor. She can be reached at [email protected] and 
May Habib is the CEO and co-founder of Writer, a generative AI platform for the enterprise. Before Writer, she co-founded Qordoba. 
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm designed from the ground up to give a distinct advantage to founders building the next generation of software companies. Unusual has invested in category-defining companies like Webflow, Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, Robinhood, and Harness. Learn more about us at https://www.unusual.vc/.Further reading from Unusual Ventures:
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Understanding the enterprise buyer
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