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How Gamma Acquired 10 Million Users in 9 Months

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Not many founders will ever know what it’s like to go from 0 to over 10 million users — let alone to have it happen in 9 months. But Grant Lee does. He co-founded Gamma 3 years ago as an alternative for slide decks, but growth only took off last year when he supercharged their product with AI-powered instant content generation. It led to Gamma winning Product of the Month on Product Hunt and adding another $3 million to a warchest that includes backers like Accel, Hustle Fund, and South Park Commons. Now their mission has expanded to make it frictionless and effortless to create any type of content — not just slides. What if a prompt you wrote could be turned into a slide deck, interactive website, or image carousel for social media, all at once and in seconds? I sat down with Grant this week and he shared the 8 key factors behind Gamma’s massive and rapid success. This is February’s ✨ free deep dive ✨ — become a member to get a new one each week and the full library of 80+. A year ago

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