Krish Ramineni
@krishramineni
Fireflies AI CEO here with a quick clarification 👇
- This was back in 2017, before ChatGPT.
- Early users were a few close friends.
- Our friends knew it was human assisted.
Manual labor showed us the problem was real before we wrote a line of code. The version of Fireflies
- This was back in 2017, before ChatGPT.
- Early users were a few close friends.
- Our friends knew it was human assisted.
Manual labor showed us the problem was real before we wrote a line of code. The version of Fireflies
Rowan Cheung@rowancheung · Nov 11, 2025This story is insane.
The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed.
The founders would:
> Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies"
> Take notes by hand while sitting silently
> Send the "AI-generated" notes 10
The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed.
The founders would:
> Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies"
> Take notes by hand while sitting silently
> Send the "AI-generated" notes 10
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