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Fireflies AI co-founders Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong began their journey by manually taking notes during meetings
The co-founder of Fireflies AI has revealed that the first prototype of the AI notetaking product did not actually have any AI. Instead, it was just him and his India-born co-founder logging into meetings, manually taking notes by hand and emailing them to clients after 10 minutes.
In essence, it was two “broke guys” pretending to be AI.
Sam Udotong, the co-founder and CTO of Fireflies AI, revealed this surprising fact in a LinkedIn post shared yesterday.
Fireflies.ai was founded by India-born Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong. The company’s roots date to around 2016, when the founders began laying groundwork and iterating on multiple product ideas before settling on the me
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