Grammarly Buys Productivity Startup Coda, Names Founder as CEO

Grammarly said Tuesday that it agreed to buy Coda, which develops productivity software that competes with tools from Notion, Google and Microsoft, and appointed Coda’s founder, ex-Googler Shishir Mehrotra, as Grammarly’s new CEO. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, the previous CEO, is stepping down and will leave the company.

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