Wispr Flow

Three years ago, voice as an interface felt like science fiction. Today, NASDAQ congratulated Wispr Flow on our $56M Series A with a feature in Times Square. Now, thousands of people, including teams at Clay, Mercury, Perplexity, and Superhuman Mail rely on it to write, code, and, communicate, all without a keyboard. This moment isn’t just about funding. It’s about a shift in how work actually gets done. We’re grateful to our team, investors, and the builders trusting voice with their most important work. The next chapter starts now! 🚀

Most managers fail for one simple reason - they don’t care enough about the people they are managing. They care about performance, optics, and their own trajectory, but not the human, and the team always knows. You see it in the surface-level questions... in the way they listen to words instead of motivations… in how they treat outputs as the whole story instead of the final 3% of it. They think they are leading but they are really just supervising the visible parts. Performance is the rehearsed version - truth is the raw version. You don’t get the raw version unless people believe you see them, understand them, and will not weaponize their honesty. When you're building something from the beginning, like we are at Wispr Flow, you get to be intentional about this. I've captured ten things I now believe are *mostly* true. If you want the full context, check out the link in the comments below. 1. Ask people what story they want to tell in a year. 2. Run rolling conversations, not quarterly interrogations. 3. Show your own uncertainty first. 4. Separate the person from the role. 5. Comment on the signal, not the output. 6. Share the context behind decisions. 7. Seek and tell the truth early. 8. Think about what the person in front of you needs from you. 9. Reward early warnings over late heroics. 10. Model your own experimentation in front of your team. Caring isn’t softness - it’s management technology most leaders never learn to use. In the end, managers see performance, leaders earn the truth.

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Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 We're thankful for you... and for our newest drop: keyboards. Yup, Wispr Flow now sells keyboards. No, we didn't see it coming either. Link in comments. Move fast, limited quantities available.

My top 5 takeaways from Tanay (Wispr Flow's founder) on building AI products that stick: 1. "We no longer have ARR as a North Star" AI companies can hit millions in ARR from new users who churn fast, then get trapped using paid spend to fuel unsustainable growth. Instead, focus on retention and habit formation—70% of Wispr's users retain every year. 2. To help users form habits, study games From Tanay: "Most software is terrible at building habits. I look at games." He models Wispr Flow after Mario where "playing the game is the onboarding." Users level up instead of getting overwhelmed upfront. 3. Avoid decision by committee ""For every single thing, there is one decision maker. Everybody else just has an opinion." Tanay's 25-person team now runs 20 projects in parallel by assigning clear decision makers. 4. Require AI prep work before every meeting "People need to show up having done the basic ChatGPT work beforehand. We spend the meeting on: Of these 20 ideas ChatGPT suggested, what are the three we're doing?" 5. Curiosity → competency → passion. "Curiosity and competency often precede passion. Once you see yourself killing it at something, you just want to do that again." He learned to code at 9—"I was shit in the beginning, but a year later I was less shit."

I will be honest. I didn’t get it at first. My reaction was, why would anyone need this when the iPhone already does it? Then I heard Tanay Kothari’s story, and everything changed. He wasn’t trying to build a transcription tool. He was trying to build a way to turn thoughts into text. When the world wasn’t ready for that idea, he didn’t give up. He built Wispr Flow, an intelligent keyboard that listens, understands context, and makes communication effortless. It has become a part of my daily life. When it went down for a few hours one day, I was actually frustrated because I couldn’t function without it. That is when I knew this product was special. Tanay Kothari is one of the most naturally curious and thoughtful founders I have ever met. He listens deeply, he iterates fast, and he builds with heart. He is the kind of founder you want to bet on. And he built Wispr Flow with privacy, security, and transparency at the center. That matters. Today, watching Wispr Flow announce its Series A2, I could not be more proud. Since their last round 5 months ago, they’ve 10x’ed their revenue, and raised a total of $81 million to build the voice operating system of the future. Tanay Kothari, congratulations on this milestone. I am so proud of you and the team. This is only the beginning, and I cannot wait to watch what you build next. 🚀🚀🚀🎉🎉🎉

Funny how the biggest career shifts rarely feel big in the moment. Wispr Flow started for me as a side thread. I was deep in the trenches at Superhuman growing a few acquisition verticals, and some of that work led to an intro to this tiny, very intense team trying to rethink how we talk to computers. I joined part-time, splitting my week between my own companies, client work, and this “voice OS” experiment. I was the person running our Product Hunt launches, stitching together early funnels, and jumping in anywhere we needed extra hands. Over time, that turned into something much bigger. I’ve gone from “helping with launches” to orchestrating our acquisition funnels end-to-end, working shoulder-to-shoulder with Daniel McCallum on marketing. Six months ago I jumped in full time as Head of Growth – and it’s honestly the best career decision I’ve ever made. And today is one of those pinch-me milestones: we’re announcing a $25M raise led by Notable Capital, with participation from Stephen Bartlett / Diary of a CEO, bringing Wispr Flow’s total funding to $81M. That capital is fuel for the next chapter – pushing toward a true voice operating system so interacting with technology feels more like talking to a friend than fighting a keyboard. I’ve never worked with a team like this. The pace we move at, the level of craft people bring, and the willingness to take big, weird bets on the future of voice and AI – it’s rare. I’m incredibly proud to be building alongside Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, and to play a small part in turning Wispr Flow from a wild idea into something people now rely on every day. We’re still early. There’s so much left to build, and this next year is going to matter even more than the last one. But I wanted to pause in the middle of the chaos and say: I’m grateful. Grateful for the trust, the ownership, the late-night brainstorms, and the chance to work on something that feels genuinely new. If you’re excited about the future of voice, productivity, and how we actually use AI in real life, keep an eye on Wispr Flow. We’re just getting started.

We’re thrilled to announce that Wispr Flow raised another $25M round after 10x'ing our revenue in just 5 months. This Series A2 brings our total funding to $81M, led by Hans Tung at Notable Capital, with Steven Bartlett joining as an investor and partner. We’re grateful for their conviction in what we’re building. But here's what matters more than the money: We cracked voice input. Not transcription - actual understanding. Our users hit "send" in under 0.5 seconds without checking. They trust it blindly. That's never existed before. Voice input was step one. Now, we’re building the assistant that actually gets things done. In a recent benchmark, Wispr came out as 3-4x more accurate than OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Siri. We're hiring cracked engineers and growth marketers who want to build the future of human-computer interaction. The keyboard had a good 150-year run. Time to build what comes next. PS: like, repost, and comment "Wispr" to get Wispr Flow for free for 3 months ❤️