Sam Liang

This morning at @kleinerperkins, @johndoerr said:"I told my daughter to use Otter, she likes it", then said to people in the room:"Otter is a great product... Is everybody comfortable to Otterize this meeting? Ok, let's Otter it!" Great to have John as a big user/fan of @otter_ai

@rohanpaul_ai "Recording all the meetings" , this is what what we have been advocating since 2016. It has been considered creepy and crazy. Glad @reidhoffman agrees with us now. That's what @otter_ai 's Conversational Knowledge Engine is for. See businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

Reid Hoffman, co founder of LinkedIn on AI-driven meeting analysis. "Basically every organization should be saying, we're recording all of our meetings, and we're running an AI on the recording of the meetings, not just for the transcript, but also to do all of the suggested follow-ups. It's like, hey, did you mentioned this, you should probably let Nikolai know and make sure that that's the case, or, you should make sure that you get approval from Satya on the following thing, or this other group is doing this. All of that kind of thing is already here the technology is there to go." --- From "Norges Bank Investment Management" YT Channel (link in comment)

We invented the AI meeting notetaker. Now we're creating the next category: The Conversational Knowledge Engine. Now, your ever-expanding meeting history gets brought to life in every AI tool you use. Think of it as a system of record for what your people in your organization actually say. Except it doesn’t just store it, it puts it to work across every AI tool you already use. Pull live data from Notion, Jira, Salesforce, or Gmail directly into Otter. Push summaries out the moment a call ends. And because Otter acts as an MCP server, Claude and ChatGPT can securely tap into your entire conversation history as live context. Your meetings don't stay locked in a notetaker anymore. They power every AI tool you use informing every decision your company makes. 🔗 to press release ➡️ bit.ly/4cPUkD3

I'm going to speak at @HumanXCo in San Francisco on Tuesday about AI and SaaS Pocalyse. Hope to you there!

Most people forget that most of the enterprise knowledge context is generated in meetings: sales, marketing, product management ... The biggest opportunity here is to let agents join all the meetings, get the context, and execute the tasks in real time. That's what we are enabling at @otter_ai

The big gap in most enterprises being able to automate work is being able to get right context to the agents. We experience a huge benefit in coding in tech because the problem is generally far simpler than other areas of knowledge work. The codebase contains a bunch of necessary context, access controls and permissions are generally not a major concern, the users are technical enough to supply the context, and the final output is generally quickly verifiable. Most knowledge work doesn’t look like this. The data is sitting in legacy silos that don’t easily connect to agents, the access controls are all out of whack (people have either too much or too little access), the information isn’t agent-ready, and more. This is the big context gap for any type of agentic workflows in most organizations right. The platforms that make solving this easy, and the companies that retool their workflows to enable this, will be the winners in a world of agents.

🎙️ We're thrilled to welcome Kenny Scannell as @otter_ai's new Chief Revenue Officer! Kenny brings over 20 years of experience scaling global revenue organizations - most recently tripling year-over-year growth at @RocketlaneHQ, and before that, leading Marketing Solutions at @Zoom. He joins at an exciting moment as voice becomes one of the most powerful interfaces for AI, and every conversation holds knowledge that organizations can capture, analyze, and act on. Welcome to the team, Kenny! 🚀 Read the full announcement: bit.ly/4lrxwgM

@Goopt @NYSE @GemmaAllenSays @johnfurrier @SiliconANGLE @theCUBE Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=EnJ1If…

@otter_ai Co-founder and CEO @Goopt was on the @NYSE trading floor yesterday! 🏙️ 📈 Sam joined @GemmaAllenSays and @johnfurrier on @SiliconANGLE @theCUBE to discuss Otter's evolution into a meeting-centric enterprise knowledge base with voice AI and agentic workflows at the core. Thanks to @bjbaumann2014, Gemma, John, and the NYSE team for having us!

@briansolis @otter_ai Thank you Brian for writing this great book!

Love this, Sam (@Goopt)! 🤩 Thank you for sharing and thank you for building @otter_ai! 🙏

@lessin In addition, if an AI chatbot can skillfully ask the right questions interactively, like a good coach or a good therapist, it can help the speaker to best describe what she needs to get done.

@lessin Agreed. Everyone has writer's block. But everyone can start talking instantly. Talking is the easiest way to express an idea. Even though talking and speech are not as precise as writing, because it's so easy, people can iterate and fine tune their expression quickly.

Written AI prompts can't be the future... because most people are terrible writers

米議事録AIのオッター、日本語版を開始　「英語で95％」の精度生かす nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

Why @otter_ai is one of @JohnMBarrows' favorite tools in one minute 🕛 👏🏼

Building a startup is like running a marathon. I run marathons to build startups. Last week, we launched the @otter_ai Enterprise product suite. Then on Sunday, I ran the hashtag #ChicagoMarathon 2025, my 10th marathon. Despite the pain, it was an amazing feeling to run through the beautiful Chicago streets in front of nearly two million spectators cheering for you. Jensen Huang of @nvidia said that he searches for hard problems, solves them, then tries to forget how difficult it all was. “It must be the feeling that marathoners go through … the entertainment value of pain and suffering can’t be understated.” This is why we build startups. Otter will go the distance.

Every enterprise deserves confidence that their data is secure at every level 🔒. Otter delivers enterprise-grade security that organizations depend on: ✓ Advanced admin controls for complete oversight ✓ Robust data retention policies that meet compliance requirements ✓ Multi-layered security protecting your data at every touchpoint Learn more about Otter for your enterprise: otter.ai/enterprise

Otter is launching a suite of enterprise tools to help companies use its tech to create a central knowledge base. techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/how…

If you have kids or are wondering what AI/robotics will do to your career, this piece in @thehill is for you. I genuinely believe every American citizen, white collar and blue collar, will have a job if they want it - right alongside the AI agents and the robots. thehill.com/opinion/techno…

Since launching our @zapier integration, teams are automating everything from auto-importing recordings to pushing action items into project management tools 🚀 Ready to up level your game? Check out some strategies and real implementation examples 👉🏼 bit.ly/4kYIuJ3

@Scobleizer Thanks Robert for sharing this great memory. I think it might be raining that night and you did a video interview with me at the door steps. The second day, after you posted your blog, so many people tried to sign up for our app and it crashed our server.

Can one conversation change your life? Yes. Here is @Goopt Sam Liang talking to me in 2012 in the doorway of an Atherton house. We talked for a couple of hours, he had just left the Google Mapping team. The conversation caused me and Shel Israel to write “Age of Context.” a.co/d/dFYd9tP About how context would change all software. @salesforce’s CEO @Benioff wrote the forward. Sam later started @otter_ai. And the book proved prescient. Still is. @karpathy calls prompt engineering now contextual engineering. This single conversation changed my life for sure.

@ChrisJBakke Soon you can ask @otter_ai agent to tell you a joke or check with action items from previous meetings before everyone joins. This new Otter agent feature already works in Zoom meetings.

I’ve started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early. When you join early, everyone’s virtual note takers join early too. I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I’m on the Titanic, we’ve just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance. I then do the rest of the meeting normally. When the meeting ends, everyone gets an emailed transcript where the AI summary is: “Chris hit an iceberg, is trapped on a sinking ship, and general Q2 pricing updates”

It was such an honor that @TimDraper selected @otter_ai as one of their Top 40 Hits! Thanks Tim for all your support in the last 15 years! You believed in us when almost all the other VCs told us our idea was too crazy and we couldn't compete with the big techs. Now we're the biggest AI Meeting Agent company. We'll grow faster and try to catch up with your other hits, like @Tesla @SpaceX @coinbase @RobinhoodApp etc!