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AI & I · Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Granola CEO on Scaling Product 'Soul': A Key Challenge

Chris, CEO of Granola, identified a significant challenge in scaling the 'soul' or consistent, coherent feel of their product as the team grows. He finds it difficult to maintain this quality while also benefiting from a larger team working on complex problems.

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in an era where you like, you were talking about product having soul and, um, product feeling consistent and coherent and, uh, tasteful and, um, how do you scale that?
Like when you have more people working on that, how do you, how do you, how can you both get the upside of having lots of people working on these hard problems, but also having this consistent feel.
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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