Grant Harvey

Going well, going well.

Today, we've got Sam Leong, the co-founder and CEO of Otter AI.

Before Otter, Sam built the blue dot for Google Maps, you know, that thing that tells you where you are.

Now he's transcribed over a billion meetings.

And last I heard, crossed $100 million in annual revenue, which is pretty awesome.

With less than 200 people at the time, that's pretty awesome.

Welcome to the show, Sam.

Yeah.

So you recently announced that Otter is moving beyond being just a meeting note taker app and building into an enterprise knowledge base with agentic workflows, MCPs in there, kind of trying to take the insights that people get from meetings and then expand that and connect all of your enterprise tools to it.

That is a big, awesome strategic shift.

Could you explain the thought process there and what all you're doing in the enterprise space?

I think it's really awesome.

Right.

You can count up all of the salaries of the people involved and you can say how expensive the meeting is.

Another issue is like, for instance, say you're having a meeting and you're using the built-in Google transcription.

And then that's nice that it's transcribing everything for you, but it's sitting in a Google Doc.

And unless you go back and check that Google Doc, that data is just still as lost as if you had had the meeting and nobody transcribed it.

That happens to me a lot.

Transcribe a meeting and it's just lost.

I can see writing being a lost art.