Episode · This Week in Startups · 2025-10-30

Jason Calacanis & Shishir Mehrotra: books mentioned on This Week in Startups

Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand | E2201

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Today's show: *Why rebrand an app with 40 million daily active users? On TWiST, Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra swings by to explain why he's renaming his company after the mail app he just purchased, Superhuman.

Shishir Mehrotra discussed Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Radical Candor

   Kim Malone Scott · at 48:40

   Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott is a management guide that teaches leaders how to care personally while challenging directly.

   Discussed

   “You guys I think are probably familiar with Kim Scott at Radical Candor. Um yeah, she's been on the program. I knew her in her Google. Yeah. So she wrote this really popular book. She got I told her about what we were doing here.”

   Shishir Mehrotra Grammarly is now Superhuman! CEO Shishir Mehrotra explains the rebrand… 2025-10-30 Listen at 48:40

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