AI and Meetings: Can AI Help You Have Better Conversations?

The Jeff Bullas Show

Richard White is founder and CEO of Fathom.video, a free app that records, transcribes and highlights your calls so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

‌Fathom was a part of the Y-Combinator W21 batch, is one of only 50 Zoom App Launch Partners, and is one of a small handful of companies Zoom has invested in directly via their Zoom Apps Fund.

‌Prior to Fathom, Richard founded UserVoice, one of the leading platforms that technology companies, from startups to the Fortune 500, use for managing customer feedback and making strategic product decisions.

‌Richard previously worked on Kiko, a company in the first batch of Y-Combinator, with Justin Kan and Emmett Shear who subsequently went on to found Twitch.

Richard is passionate about designing intuitive productivity tools with delightful user experiences.

What you will learn

• Discover how Fathom.video, a free app that records, transcribes, and highlights your calls, can revolutionize your productivity by allowing you to focus on conversations instead of taking notes.
• Understand how Richard's frustration with taking notes during user research calls inspired the creation of Fathom, an AI-powered tool that summarizes meetings.
• Learn how Richard's early exposure to computers and programming at a young age fueled his passion for technology and led to a successful career in the tech industry.
• Gain insights into the era of building custom computers and how it compares to today's plug-and-play devices like MacBooks.