Jon Steinback, Co-Founder and CEO at Marker: BREAKING: Marker raised $13m Seed

Marker just came out of stealth and raised a $13m Seed led by Index Ventures. Marker is an AI editor built to help writers develop their ideas and get feedback throughout the writing process.

Jon Steinback is Co-Founder and CEO of Marker. He and co-founder Ryan Bowman built it to support the whole writing process, from thinking through drafting to editing. The result is a modern word processor made for people who believe in the craft of writing.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:20 - Marker's seed round and coming out of stealth

0:57 - What Marker actually is

1:41 - Who Marker is built for

3:33 - How Marker's product took shape

4:39 - Finding the balance between AI and human writing

6:52 - Why these investors backed Marker

9:20 - Jon's time at DeepMind

10:52 - How Marker will use the funding

13:04 - The goal behind coming out of stealth

14:33 - Marker's long-term vision