Gaurav Vohra is a growth leader and startup advisor who ran growth, analytics, and growth product at Superhuman from 2015 through its roughly ten-year arc to tens of millions in ARR and its acquisition by Grammarly. He spent five years in consulting at Oliver Wyman before joining Superhuman, and holds a first-class MA from the University of Cambridge. He now advises companies including 📝Clay, Replit, and Wispr Flow, and is a regular speaker at 📝Reforge.
At Superhuman, Gaurav worked across the technical and analytical core of growth while investing heavily in craft and artistry. He frames the two mission-critical traits of growth operators as CPU — the ability to process large volumes of information toward solutions — and velocity, the speed of iterating on that processing; both, he argues, are trainable rather than innate. His reach-versus-resonance framework holds that the best products and growth ideas combine large distribution with deep impact, and that building taste requires many reps of seeing excellence, shipping ideas, and studying users. He notes that as AI raises the floor on technical skills, deep understanding still matters for the top fraction of operators.
Gaurav came on the podcast to talk growth hiring, artistry, and resonance — the traits he looks for in growth operators, how to build taste, and the growth-hack-hall-of-fame move Grammarly made during the Superhuman name change.