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AI & I · Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Granola CEO on Competition: Focus on the Future, Not Today's Battles

Chris, CEO of Granola, addressed the issue of competitors copying their AI meeting notes feature, including Notion, OpenAI, and Zoom. He takes a long-term view, stating that current competition is less important than capturing future opportunities in the evolving AI landscape. He also noted that they were inspired by earlier meeting note-taking AI.

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I think we are in the very, very early steps of a computing revolution. And that, um, what has come thus far will pale in comparison to what will come soon.
what people are fighting for today doesn't matter. There's this incredible opportunity ahead and I think we have a shot at it and a few other companies have a shot at it, right?
Meeting AI note takers have been around for ages. We we were let's say heavily inspired by a lot of things that came before. So I, you know, it's like I can't be like, oh, how dare you be inspired by what we did, you know, it's like we're just in an ecosystem.
Heard on AI & I — “The Founder of a $1.5B AI Company on What Comes After the First Wave of AI Apps, published Wednesday, July 15, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Granola CEO on Competition: Focus on the Future, Not Today's Battles — Heardvine