Training Data Scaling the ‘Cursor for Slides’ to $50M ARR: Gamma founder Jon Noronha
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Aug 19, 2025 John Noronha, founder of Gamma, has revolutionized visual communication by addressing the common pain of creating presentations. He shares insights from building a cash-positive platform amidst fierce competition, including PowerPoint's dominance. The conversation dives into the experimentation with AI models, highlighting creative strengths and cost-efficiency. Noronha explains how their approach evolved from slides into broader formats like documents and websites, showcasing Gamma's innovative features that enhance user experience and interactivity.
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Reinventing Presentations
- Gamma was founded to reinvent presentations because people need visual communication but hate making slides.
- John Noronha positioned Gamma as a new format rather than a PowerPoint clone to solve that universal pain.
Near-Failure Before AI Breakthrough
- Gamma nearly failed with middling product-market fit and dwindling runway before generative AI improved.
- Improved image and text models arrived just in time to save the company and unlock new product capabilities.
Blank-Page To Draft Shift
- Solving Gamma's blank-page problem became solving users' blank-page problem with AI-generated drafts.
- That shifted user effort from starting to editing, dramatically improving activation.