Sam Stephenson

Designer / Founder at

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

@eunice_reads @paularambles @meetgranola 🤣 this made me laugh

[Soleio @soleio]

What does the future hold for Granola?

How do you build a beloved product and brand in the crazy age of AI when tools are changing on a weekly basis?

Live in person this Wednesday 6pm at their new SF office:

a @meetgranola fireside with @samstphenson for @firstofkind

[Zach Moskow @zachmoskow]

Spotted on the bus stops of New York City

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

@Bfaviero @garrytan Something coming soon on this!

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

If you do one thing at work today, head to Granola and connect your Gmail to start getting briefs for your external meetings.

I've become embarrassingly dependent on these. Scanning the brief as you join a meeting so beats frantic linkedin searching

[Granola @meetgranola]

No more frantic Googling right before a meeting.

Introducing Briefs. Granola searches your emails, the web, and previous meeting notes. Then writes 3 bullets with just what you need to know.

Join your next meeting feeling prepared.

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

Who's the best website designer you know?

People love how thoughtfully crafted Granola's product is. We want to apply that same level of care to our presence on the web

This is a broad role: you'll own the design of Granola's website, as well as a host of related projects.

Dream job for the right person!

https://t.co/0Nd6YFwhjt

[Tikhon Belousko @_tikhon]

Happy to announce design engineering night 8 on 4th of june! All speakers locked. This time we have talks from:

1️⃣ @bstsrvdbld from @vercel
2️⃣ @walidbehlock from @nothing
3️⃣ Patrick Poss

Come join us, it's gonna be fun! Rsvp below👇

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

I've been using this the past few months and it's fun!

If you're into fashion, collecting, and discovering new things, shoot Jess a DM to get early access to her & @ben_chomsang's new creation.

https://t.co/pFZbj3imai

[Jess Mahendra Stephenson @jessmahendrastp]

building something at the intersection of taste, shopping, and people you actually trust. in private beta and I'm letting in a handful more testers this month.

if you're someone who saves screenshots of outfits and has lots of tabs open pls dm me!! would love to onboard you!!

[Chris Pedregal @cjpedregal]

Granola app of the day!

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

If crafting beautiful experiences, pixels, and interactions is your thing, then we'd love to hear from you 👇

[Tikhon Belousko @_tikhon]

We are looking for a design engineer to join our team @meetgranola. If you value craft and care deeply about the details hit me up!

[Linear @linear]

New: MCP support for Linear Agent

Connect tools like Granola, Notion, PostHog, and many others to pull in context for creating issues, drafting PRDs, and writing project updates.

[shadcn @shadcn]

Unkey, Granola, Midday are good examples of using shadcn/ui over time. Started with the default components, a bit of branding and shipped v1.

When the time came (more resources, funding, hires), they rebranded. And when they did, the code was right there. Their code. Code that had evolved with the product.

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

This is the biggest upgrade to Granola's chat since we launched it.

Ask more ambitious questions, get faster answers. More and more I reach for this over Claude if I need to work on anything company-related

[Granola @meetgranola]

We've rebuilt Granola Chat from the ground up to be agentic.

So now, it handles quick questions faster and deeper questions more thoughtfully.

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

2025: Casa Granola 🥱
2026: Chateau Granola? 🤔

[Aaron Harris @harris]

The buyer was "Granola Properties" so I guess that's a new take on Use of Funds.

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

@designertom @richardzphotoz @a16z @ridd_design @soren_iverson @ColinandSamir @perplexity_ai @vercel @metalab Tommy might be your man for this! I love what he did with Ridd

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

@jenny_wen Writing is thinking!

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

@getthinkable @jenny_wen woah these are lovely

[Sam Stephenson @samstphenson]

@Jeswan22 @jenny_wen We had an early prototype of @meetgranola that looked a lot like this!

[Tikhon Belousko @_tikhon]

We had another great design engineering night. Huge thanks to @_kejk @jsscclr @lukerohanbailey for amazing talks! See y’all on the next one! 💚