Gamma reached $100M ARR with 50 million users and 600,000 paying subscribers five years after founding, operating profitably with a team of 50. The company achieved the bulk of this growth with zero sales and zero marketing spend, relying instead on word of mouth, according to SaaStr.
Grant Lee and two former Optimizely colleagues founded Gamma to address the blank page problem in presentation tools. Lee built an early prototype after spending excessive time on formatting in Google Slides.