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CFO Grammarly – behind their $1 billion in non-dilutive financing and how we do FP&A

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Matt Hudson became CFO of Grammarly – the popular writing assistant tool – after the company acquired Coda (a productivity tool)- of which he was a founding member. Now as CFO at Grammarly he is overseeing rapid change at the company which has over 40 million daily active users and $700m in revenue (and a 50 person finance team). Finance is helping pioneer a company vision of AI redefining every business application and workflow, “reinventing productivity”. To this end, in May 2025, Grammarly raised $1 billion in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst to fund sales and marketing costs and strategic acquisitions. Since then, Grammarly acquired email startup Superhuman (July 2025). You sense more is coming.

In this episode

  • Grammarly $1billion non-diluted growth investment explained
  • Being a founding member of Coda (acquired by Grammarly)
  • How my product expertise plugs into finance
  • Joining YouTube when it was around $140million in revenue to $3billion by the time I left ( $36 billion today)
  • Will CFOs see an explosion of costs because of AI
  • FP&A set up at Grammarly and biggest KPIs
  • Bonding over a love of Chili’s
  continue reading

104 episodes

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Matt Hudson became CFO of Grammarly – the popular writing assistant tool – after the company acquired Coda (a productivity tool)- of which he was a founding member. Now as CFO at Grammarly he is overseeing rapid change at the company which has over 40 million daily active users and $700m in revenue (and a 50 person finance team). Finance is helping pioneer a company vision of AI redefining every business application and workflow, “reinventing productivity”. To this end, in May 2025, Grammarly raised $1 billion in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst to fund sales and marketing costs and strategic acquisitions. Since then, Grammarly acquired email startup Superhuman (July 2025). You sense more is coming.

In this episode

  • Grammarly $1billion non-diluted growth investment explained
  • Being a founding member of Coda (acquired by Grammarly)
  • How my product expertise plugs into finance
  • Joining YouTube when it was around $140million in revenue to $3billion by the time I left ( $36 billion today)
  • Will CFOs see an explosion of costs because of AI
  • FP&A set up at Grammarly and biggest KPIs
  • Bonding over a love of Chili’s
  continue reading

104 episodes

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