Noam Lovinsky

Who they are

Noam Lovinsky is CPO at Superhuman — co-founded Skobee and ran Episodic as CEO before a decade-plus climb through Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Thumbtack.

Person

Noam Lovinsky's career reads like a tour of every major inflection point in consumer and enterprise tech over the past fifteen years. He started as a founder — co-founding Skobee and serving as CEO of Episodic — before moving into the big-platform world at Google and YouTube, where he rose to Director of Product Management. From there he took a Senior Director role at Facebook, then made the bet on Thumbtack (writing a public LinkedIn post about why he was joining), where he served as CPO. He then joined Superhuman as CPO before Grammarly acquired it in July 2025. He co-founded two companies — Skobee (a social coordination tool) and Episodic — alongside that employed track, which signals genuine founder instincts underneath the big-company PM career. He writes actively on Medium at medium.com/@noaml, covering product leadership, AI's impact on design and PM roles, and team-building with AI agents. He appeared on Lenny's Newsletter podcast in 2024 on the happiness and pain of product management, and on the 20Product podcast in 2024–2025 debating whether the design phase is dead in a world of AI — that last topic is the clearest signal of where his head is right now.

Company

The most recent move: Superhuman acquired GPTZero, an AI text detection service built by Princeton grad Edward Tian, on June 23, 2026 — less than a year after Grammarly acquired Superhuman on July 1, 2025. The Grammarly deal was significant; terms weren't disclosed publicly, but the acquisition valued Superhuman below its $825 million August 2021 valuation. Since the acquisition, Superhuman has been operating under Grammarly's umbrella, with AI updates and a rebranding in late 2025, and in January 2026 integrated Saifr AI agents for compliant enterprise communication in financial services. Possibly — a merger with Rows in February 2026 adds a spreadsheet-native collaboration layer to the suite, though that claim is softer. The product today is an AI workplace suite covering email, tasks, and communication, with Superhuman for Sales offering Salesforce and HubSpot integrations.

Market

Superhuman competes in AI-driven productivity and email software against Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Slack at the broad end, and against focused challengers — Shortwave (explicitly targeting Superhuman's market with plans to add Outlook support at a fraction of the price), Canary Mail, Missive, and Spark Mail — at the premium end. Superhuman's strength is speed and a cult-level premium user experience, but its $30-per-month price point and limited team collaboration features leave it exposed as AI writing assistance becomes table stakes at $4–9 per month from rivals. The Grammarly acquisition is being watched as a test case for whether an AI company can absorb a premium product without eroding the qualities that made it valuable.

Network

Lenny Rachitsky featured Noam on his newsletter and podcast in 2024, describing him as having 'a remarkable career' — a warm signal of mutual respect in the PM community. Noam has also posted publicly about Coda's funding, suggesting an investor or advisory relationship with that company. No formal edge data is available beyond these public signals.

Lenny Rachitsky· Writer and podcaster, Lenny's Newsletter
Rahul Vohra· Founder and CEO, Superhuman (pre-acquisition)

How they likely show up

Co-founded Skobee and ran Episodic as CEO before joining large platforms → he has firsthand founder experience, so he likely evaluates product decisions through a build-vs-buy and 'does this compound?' lens, not just a roadmap-management lens.
Career arc moves from founder → Google/YouTube → Facebook → Thumbtack CPO → Superhuman CPO, each step either scaling up or betting on a high-conviction smaller company → he takes deliberate career bets and probably expects the same intentionality from people he works with.
Active Medium writer and recurring podcast guest (Lenny's, 20Product) on AI and PM roles → he processes ideas publicly, which means he has formed and stress-tested views; he's not just reacting in conversation.
Spoke publicly on 'Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI' at 20Product → he's willing to take a provocative position and defend it, suggesting he prefers direct debate to diplomatic hedging.
Possibly — medium tenure shape across roles suggests he moves when the inflection point has passed, not out of restlessness, though this is a softer signal.

Conversation tips

→ Reference his 20Product episode on whether the design phase is dead — he clearly has a specific thesis there, and asking him to defend or update it will unlock a real conversation rather than a rehearsed answer.
→ Treat him as a founder, not just a big-company PM — he started companies before joining Google, and that identity likely matters to him.
→ He writes on Medium and appears on podcasts to sharpen his thinking publicly, so citing a specific post or episode signals you did the actual reading, not just a LinkedIn skim.
→ Ask about the Grammarly acquisition from a product POV — he's living the integration challenge that the whole industry is watching, and he'll have a grounded take on what actually changes vs. what stays the same.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on his 20Product episode about whether the design phase is dead — he named specific PM roles he thinks AI makes more and less important, and asking which bet has held up nine months later is a direct, high-signal entry.
Reference the GPTZero acquisition on June 23, 2026 — buying an AI text detection service inside an AI writing productivity suite is a pointed strategic choice worth unpacking, especially given Superhuman's premium positioning.
Mention his public LinkedIn post on joining Thumbtack — he wrote it as a conviction statement, and asking what the equivalent conviction is for the Grammarly-Superhuman chapter tells you a lot about how he's framing his current role.

Discovery questions

You argued on 20Product that some PM roles become more important with AI and some less — now that you're inside an AI-acquired company, which of those predictions has surprised you most?
Superhuman's entire brand was built on friction — the $30 price, the mandatory onboarding call, the invite-only access. How do you preserve that as a signal of quality inside a company the size of Grammarly?
The GPTZero acquisition brings AI text detection into a suite built around AI-assisted writing — what's the product logic there, and what does it tell us about where Superhuman thinks the value in email is going?

Avoid

Don't lead with generic 'AI is changing product management' framing — he has a specific, defended thesis on this from multiple public appearances, and a vague opener will signal you haven't done the reading.

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