The Silicon Valley Podcast

013 Using AI and Machine Learning to Transcribe the world with Otter CEO Sam Liang

23 Apr 2020

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On today’s show, we interview Sam Liang, the Founder and CEO of Otter.ai, a highly disruptive collaboration and productivity tool. Otter.ai has won many of the most prestigious awards in tech given by companies such as Google, FastCompany, PcMag, and more. Before founding his startup, Sam worked at Google where he led the location-based services unit, and won an award for the “Bluedot Mobile Location System.” Sam received a PhD at Stanford for Internet Distributed Systems, working under the professor who is known for being the first investor in Google. In this episode, you’ll learn: How big of a market there is for a program for translating and storing conversations How Otter works and how it continually keeps improving using Artificial Intelligence What the next few years looks like for use of data and how programs will get more and more accurate in time How a translation tool will revolutionize what we know about ourselves We would like to give a special thanks to Rick Quan who made the introduction to the Sam Liang, which allowed this amazing interview to happen. Help us out! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Books and Resources Homepage of Otter.ai LinkedIn of Sam Liang Tutorials on how to use Otter.ai Review on Otter.ai from CNET Rick Quan NBC interview discussing the documentary about Ed Lee Connect with Shawn: https://linktr.ee/ShawnflynnSV Shawn Flynn’s Twitter Account Shawn Flynn’s LinkedIn Account Silicon Valley LinkedIn Group Account Shawn Flynn’s Facebook Account Email [email protected]

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013 Using AI and Machine Learning to Transcribe the world with Otter CEO Sam Liang

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13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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