How to Use AI to Survive (and Even Enjoy) Meetings | Sam Stephenson

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About this video

Sam is the co-founder of Granola, the AI meeting notes app now valued at $1.5B. Granola has helped me survive (and even enjoy) countless meetings, so I was excited to learn how Sam uses AI to show up prepared.

We also talked about building an AI-native company without the 996 grind and what design means when agents skip your app entirely.

Sam and I talked about:

(00:00) The AI brief Sam now relies on before every new meeting (01:27) “What did I miss?”: Granola’s most used recipe (03:45) Why Granola hides the transcript despite user complaints (09:37) A Granola recipe to get feedback from founders (13:54) Why Sam feels a pang of sadness when agents skip your UI (19:30) Why Sam’s Figma use fell to 20% and how Granola stops slop (26:14) Nacho: The agent every Granola employee asks first (30:58) Why most people stop improving their product way too early

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