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AI & I · Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Granola CEO on Team Scaling: From 12 to 70 People is a Big Leap

Chris, CEO of Granola, discussed the significant challenge of scaling his team from a previous startup of 12 people to their current size of between 16 and 70. He highlighted organizing humans and maintaining product coherence as key difficulties in this growth phase.

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My last startup, Secratic, we were 12 people. So just going from like 12 to we're actually over we're somewhere between, I don't know, 16 and 70 now.
And so, you know, there's that's very different and I've never done that before, right? So organizing humans, that's one.
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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