Jon Steinback is the co-founder and CEO of Marker, an AI writing tool that came out of stealth with a $13M seed round led by Index Ventures. He previously spent four years at DeepMind leading the creative brand and marketing team across projects like AlphaFold and Gemini.
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Marker is building a full-stack AI writing tool that writes with users rather than for them, targeting the billions of word processor users who want better tools for actual writing while maintaining authorship.
Index Ventures shares Marker's contrarian philosophy that writing won't disappear in 5 years and wants to double down on human writing rather than let it be subsumed by AI-generated text.