scalability is something that you know as you fix one thing another thing needs to be addressed it's like

you look through this entire funnel and see where the bottlenecks are and usually bottlenecks occur at

different parts any changes you make might give you one to two months of breathing room maybe three

months of breathing room but you have to constantly change. To be honest, if people knew how overwhelming it is to build and scale a SaaS

product, I don't think anyone would start because if they had all that knowledge early on,

they would not want to take that risk and plunge in.

I'm Chris Romini, co-founder and CEO at Fireflies.AI.

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And today how Chris Ramanini dreamed of a tool to assist you with your meetings by recording and transcribing your conversations.

All this and more. Oncoat Story.

Chris Ramanini grew up in Silicon Valley, observing tech all around him. But what really excited him was the innovation happening in the last five years.

He used to play sports as a kid, tennis, baseball, etc., and he was always excited about filming his games or practice

and analyzing how he executed the craft. He brings his analytical frame of mind into his current venture

and still plays some sports, lifts weights, and tracks his

nutrition on the side. Chris went through meetings like we all do, conducting a meeting with

expensive team members and then forgetting most of the conversation afterwards. He decided he wanted

to figure out a way to remember every conversation he had and unlock the hidden metrics behind meetings.

This is the creation story of fireflies.AI.

Fireflies in a nutshell is an AI meeting assistant. It joins your meetings across major

video conferencing platforms like

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