Sam Stephenson

I'm Sam Stephenson, co-founder and designer of Granola. We built an AI notepad for meetings that captures everything without putting a bot in the room.

Before this I did early design work across a string of startups and led global research at Applied Cognitive Science. I started as a designer, learned to code, and spent a decade asking how you make something technically powerful feel inevitable instead of intimidating.

Ask me about: how Granola works, product design and craft, the founder journey, or hiring