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Building an AI assistant for your meetings ~ Founder & CEO @firefliesai ~ Forbes 30U30 ~ Former PM @microsoft ~ Went to @penn
San Francisco fireflies.ai Joined January 2015
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Krish Ramineni Verified account @krishramineni
AI isn’t even that good yet.

Employees use AI to create slop. Managers use AI to review the slop. Then everyone uses AI to fix that slop.

We’re maxing out tokens, but are we shipping anything that actually works?

Meanwhile, talented people with master’s degrees and years of experience can’t find jobs.

And CEOs keep blaming AI for layoffs.

A lot of it is bad management, overhiring, and companies protecting their stock prices.

We have not laid off a single person because of AI at Fireflies. And I don’t intend to.

We’re using AI more than ever. And we’re hiring more than ever.

AI should help people do better work, not create more work for people to clean up.

If the biggest thing AI has done for a company is help it fire people, maybe they aren’t using it right.

We need more humans to think, curate, and improve what comes out of AI tools.

At Fireflies, AI has made us more ambitious.

This wednesday, we’re launching 10 new products. The more we build, the more people we need.

We’re looking for great marketers, designers, and former founders to help scale Fred. Come join us and tune in for a big announcement on 11.11.
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Krish Ramineni Verified account @krishramineni
A lot of startups decided to build AI notetakers and enter our market.

So we decided to enter theirs.

Starting next week, Fireflies is announcing 10 new products.

Some startups have raised $100M+ to build what we're about to give away for free.

Also, Fred says hi 👋
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Krish Ramineni Verified account @krishramineni
At our offsite, I pulled out my phone and replied to customers by talking instead of typing. The team’s eyes lit up.

Fireflies Talk is one of our fastest growing products. I dictated enough words to write a Harry Potter book.

After desktop, we’re now on iOS & Android. Get free, unlimited dictation.
Krish Ramineni Verified account @krishramineni
Fundraising so wild right now, you have 2 month old startups raising at $10 billion
Paul Klein IV Verified account @pk_iv Oct 7
Fireflies hit a $1B valuation on $19M raised. So why do they give their core software away for free?

@krishramineni joined me on Navigators to explain what Fireflies charges for instead of traditional SaaS and where the real value is.

00:00 Intro: a unicorn that gives its software away
01:48 Years of failed products
04:25 Why meetings were the data nobody could capture
07:21 "I don't want to say something twice": running Fireflies on Fireflies
08:41 The support agent that handles more tickets than any human
10:37 Why Fireflies won't train on customer data
11:55 Open weight models and an unlimited free tier
13:19 Why app companies need a model router
16:05 "I don't think you can vibe code a CRM"
17:32 SaaS goes free, agentic work gets paid
19:47 Become infrastructure or become a connector
23:20 A unicorn on $19M raised

As always, you can watch the full conversation on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
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