Sam Stephenson

If you do one thing at work today, head to Granola and connect your Gmail to start getting briefs for your external meetings. I've become embarrassingly dependent on these. Scanning the brief as you join a meeting so beats frantic linkedin searching

Who's the best website designer you know? People love how thoughtfully crafted Granola's product is. We want to apply that same level of care to our presence on the web This is a broad role: you'll own the design of Granola's website, as well as a host of related projects. Dream job for the right person! granola.ai/jobs/web-brand…

Happy to announce design engineering night 8 on 4th of june! All speakers locked. This time we have talks from: 1️⃣ @bstsrvdbld from @vercel 2️⃣ @walidbehlock from @nothing 3️⃣ Patrick Poss Come join us, it's gonna be fun! Rsvp below👇

I've been using this the past few months and it's fun! If you're into fashion, collecting, and discovering new things, shoot Jess a DM to get early access to her & @ben_chomsang's new creation. woven.my

Granola app of the day!

If crafting beautiful experiences, pixels, and interactions is your thing, then we'd love to hear from you 👇

New: MCP support for Linear Agent Connect tools like Granola, Notion, PostHog, and many others to pull in context for creating issues, drafting PRDs, and writing project updates.

Unkey, Granola, Midday are good examples of using shadcn/ui over time. Started with the default components, a bit of branding and shipped v1. When the time came (more resources, funding, hires), they rebranded. And when they did, the code was right there. Their code. Code that had evolved with the product.

This is the biggest upgrade to Granola's chat since we launched it. Ask more ambitious questions, get faster answers. More and more I reach for this over Claude if I need to work on anything company-related

2025: Casa Granola 🥱 2026: Chateau Granola? 🤔

@designertom @richardzphotoz @a16z @ridd_design @soren_iverson @ColinandSamir @perplexity_ai @vercel @metalab Tommy might be your man for this! I love what he did with Ridd

Our small team has been pursuing this since August. Episodes released: - @ridd_design - @soren_iverson In post production: - @ColinandSamir - @perplexity_ai - @vercel - @metalab And a lot more in scheduling. Big mission, small team, lots of internal tools, curiosity and a deep appreciation for stories and quality. youtube.com/watch?v=mD3Q2f…

We're hiring. The @a16z new media team is looking for a showrunner/EP to launch a16z Originals, a YouTube native editorial series with a techno-optimist POV. Episodes will run 10 to 20 minutes and geared for an audience beyond tech. If you know someone, DM me or send an email.

@jenny_wen Writing is thinking!

one silly AI thing i can’t get myself to fully adopt is meeting notes. there’s something about taking my own notes that locks things into memory for me, and seeing the notes in my own voice makes it easier to jog what happened.

@getthinkable @jenny_wen woah these are lovely

@jenny_wen I sometimes do both - granola + handwritten notes. But I prefer handwritten as it lets my mind wander. Took these at a recent conference.

@Jeswan22 @jenny_wen We had an early prototype of @meetgranola that looked a lot like this!

i feel the same way. i still take my own notes while running an AI recorder in the background. what i really want is something like this: i jot things down or tap a line from live transcript during the meeting, and after the meeting i can see how my notes connect to the full summary. my notes stay mine, AI just fills in the gaps

We had another great design engineering night. Huge thanks to @_kejk @jsscclr @lukerohanbailey for amazing talks! See y’all on the next one! 💚

Looking for someone to shoot some handheld video content tomorrow evening at Design Engineering, chat to attendees and get a sense of the vibe, and then cut it together for social for us. Please reach out if you want to help!

@j0hnwang this is a heartwarming thread to read after the chaos of the original announcement

hot take: granola crushed it with the rebrand

@etnshow @meetgranola thanks for having me on!

BREAKING: Sam Stephenson (@samstphenson) Co-Founder of Granola (@meetgranola) joins us live today to break down the $125M Series-C at a $1.5B valuation.

@SebJohnsonUK @dannyrimer @IndexVentures @mamoonha @kleinerperkins @mignano @nabeel @natfriedman @danielgross Thanks so much for having me on Seb!

BREAKING: Granola has raised a WHOPPING $125m Series C at a $1.5bn valuation! The round has been led by @dannyrimer of @IndexVentures with participation from Mamoon Hamid (@mamoonha) of @kleinerperkins. @mignano, @nabeel, @natfriedman and @danielgross also all doubled down. I spoke to Cofounder Sam Stephenson where we discussed: (00:00) - Introduction to Sam and the round (01:50) - Why they raised only 9 months after the B (03:18) - Where growth has come from (04:00) - Why VCs love Granola (05:40) - GTM strategy (07:00) - From single user product to enterprise product (08:00) - Granola as the context layer for companies (09:40) - Being a Designer as a Co-founder (11:00) - Product roadmap decisions (12:00) - Intuition over data in culture (14:14) - Use of capital and expansion to SF (17:00) - Why Granola runs the best London events (18:40) - Raising from Danny Rimer + every VC invested was a user before Amazing news. Congrats @samstphenson, @cjpedregal and the rest of the @meetgranola team!