Sam Stephenson is the co-founder and early designer of Granola, the AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. Sam has spent his career building products that respect both the craft of design and the reality of how people actually work. He's based along with most of the team in London, UK. Granola raised a $125M Series C at a $1.5B valuation in March 2026, and are consistently ranked one of 2026's fastest growing SaaS companies by Ramp spend data. Thousands of companies like Ramp, Cursor, Figma, and Posthog trust Granola to help them capture and make sense of their their conversations.