Sam Liang
Co-founder and CEO, Otter.ai
Former Google engineer who worked on location technology, then co-founded Otter.ai to transcribe and summarise meetings automatically.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues meeting notes should be automatic, searchable, and shared, not retyped by whoever was least busy.
- Presents transcription as an accessibility feature first: live captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing participants.
- Says consent and clear recording notices should be built into meeting tools.
Accomplishments
- Co-founded Otter.ai in 2016; it transcribes and summarizes meetings in real time.
- Previously led Google's Blue Dot location technology and was CTO at Alohar Mobile.
- PhD from Stanford; Otter is used by millions of individual and enterprise accounts.
Papers & key writings
Writes through the Otter.ai blog and interviews; earlier academic work is in mobile location sensing.
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