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

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 fou