Rahul Roy-Chowdhury (Grammarly) - Responsible AI Innovation

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Rahul Roy-Chowdhury is Grammarly’s CEO as of May 1, 2023. He was previously the company’s Global Head of Product, overseeing everything that makes the company’s writing assistance software tick, managing the product, design, and data science teams. Before coming aboard at Grammarly, Roy-Chowdhury spent many years at Google leading the Privacy, Safety, and Security teams to unified solutions across Google’s product portfolio. In this presentation and conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Roy-Chowdhury Shares his company’s approach to building ethical AI tools and encourages aspiring entrepreneurs and tech leaders to get engaged in the conversation about responsible AI.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:13.0	Welcome Stanford and YouTube community
0:17.0	to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar at Stanford University, brought to you
0:21.6	by basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students, and STVP, the Entrepreneurship
0:27.8	Center in the School of Engineering at Stanford.
0:30.2	I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford,
0:35.2	and the director of Alchemist and Accelerator for
0:37.5	Enterprise Startups. Today we are thrilled to have Rahul Roy Chowdhury, CEO of Gramerly,
0:44.1	here with us. How many people have used Gramerly? Oh, wow. Okay. So it almost needs
0:50.6	no introduction. How many people have used Chrome? Yeah, Google Chrome.
0:55.6	Okay, well, if you like either of those products and many more,
0:57.9	the man behind them is our guest speaker tonight, Rahul.
1:00.6	So Rahul is the current CEO of Gramerly,
1:04.2	and used to be the global head of product of Grammarly.
1:06.2	He's coming to the CEO position from a deep product background.
1:09.9	And Grammarly, as you guys all know, and it needs no introduction, is an AI, an NLP-driven
1:15.0	writing enhancement tool whose mission is to make all lives better by improving communication
1:20.2	across people.
1:22.9	Rahul formerly spent 14 years at Google where he really honed his chops in product management.
1:28.3	He rose up the ranks to become ultimately the vice president of product at Google, and on the way he was overseeing products like Chrome and Chrome Books and many, many others.
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