Sam Liang
Recent posts focus on AI & automation, data & enrichment and product & building.
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When we started Otter.ai, we told the VCs that we would build our own voice AI technologies, record all the conversations in the world, and make all voice data searchable. Most of the VCs were scared. They said: nobody w…
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Stanford University Professor David Cheriton wrote the very first check of $100K to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google in 1997. Then, he wrote the very first check to Diane Green and Mendel Rosenblum to start VMw…
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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 #ChicagoMarathon 2025, my 10th marathon. Despite…
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I only started running 5 years ago. Even before that, I heard the Boston Marathon was the most prestigious marathon in the world, and people always admired those who qualified for Boston. But I never thought it was for m…
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I ran the #LondonMarathon yesterday. It was warm and harder than I thought. The last 6 miles were really tough. But the energy from the crowd was incredible, millions of spectators, and along the 26 miles, hundreds of s…
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20 years ago, I badged in to Google every morning as an employee. Last week I walked back in as a speaker. In 2006, I developed the Google Map Location Platform with an amazing team, the system behind Google mobile Maps…
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20 years ago, I badged in to Google every morning as an employee. Last week I walked back in as a speaker. In 2006, I developed the Google Map Location Platform with an amazing team, the system behind Google mobile Maps…
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I was at NY/NJ Stadium today for the World Cup final, which was reportedly watched by 1.8 billion people worldwide. Spain vs. Argentina. Yamal vs. Messi. Like what Tom Cruise said today before the game: "Football is a la…
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I was at NY/NJ Stadium today for the World Cup final, which was reportedly watched by 1.8 billion people worldwide. Spain vs. Argentina. Yamal vs. Messi. Like what Tom Cruise said today before the game: "Football is a la…
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Proud to share that Otter.ai has been selected by OpenAI as one of a small group of Codex enterprise partners, alongside Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoom, Docusign. It's a meaningful validation of where we've focused: buildin…
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Building an AI company in Silicon Valley is always cut-throat, and I rarely take any time off. But to cheer for the USMNT in the World Cup, I had to make an exception this afternoon. Down to ten men due to a controversi…
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Every company has a system of record. Except the most important one. There's a CRM like Salesforce for customer relationships. A Workday for your people. An SAP or Oracle for the financials. At some point someone decide…
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It's amazing to have serial entrepreneur Adam Cheyer, CoFounder of Siri, Viv Labs , Sentient, Change.org, speak at Otter.ai company all-hands this week. Adam walked us through CALO, the DARPA-funded AI project he led in…
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It was great to sit down with Zoe Kleinman at the BBC studio, who previously interviewed people like Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Rishi Sunak, etc., to discuss how voice AI is changing the way we work. Zoe asked a lot of tough…
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Last Sunday I ran the London Marathon. Brutal but beautiful. The most incredible was that I got to witness something that's never happened before in human history: Sabastian Sawe broke the 2-hour barrier. I was still c…
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I ran the #LondonMarathon yesterday. It was warm and harder than I thought. The last 6 miles were really tough. But the energy from the crowd was incredible, millions of spectators, and along the 26 miles, hundreds of s…
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Friday morning in London, I just joined CNBC International Squawkbox Europe live to talk about something I genuinely believe: voice is about to become the most valuable asset in business, and how companies that can captu…
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Forbes evaluated more than 20,000 startups based on "company reputation, employee satisfaction, and growth", and selected the best startup employers in America. They ranked Otter.ai, with over 35 million users, $100M+ A…
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7 years ago today at Kleiner Perkins office, when the legendary VC investor John Doerr discussed his book, "Measure What Matters", with a big roomful of founders and executives, he asked: "Shall we Otter this meeting?"…
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2025 was transformational for Otter.ai. We crossed $100M ARR with fewer than 200 people (that’s over $500K revenue per employee). We launched the industry's first voice-activated AI Meeting Agent and a comprehensive ente…
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