Granola's Design Playbook: Do One Thing, Do It Calm
Season 1 · Episode 9 · 05:56 ·
Granola co-founder Sam Stephenson on building a $1.5B AI note-taking app with zero paid acquisition. The secret: an 'OXO philosophy' — design for the most chaotic workday and delight everyone else. Plus: why the vibe-coding era makes discipline the rarest resource, how their growth engine is literally the shared meeting notes, and the AI memory/privacy tradeoffs they're still wrestling with. Source: The Cognitive Revolution (2026-04-08)