# Granola and the coming fight over who owns your meeting transcripts

> This Platformer interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal opens up a fight that is only beginning: who actually owns the transcripts that AI notetakers generate from our conversations. Pedregal stakes out an unusually firm position, saying he flatly refuses requests from executives who want full surveillance access to their employees' meeting transcripts, and describes exploring automatic deletion of verbatim records over time. The piece situates that stance in a market rushing the other way, as invisible AI bots quietly capture more and more of what happens in meetings. Granola treats privacy as both an ethical line and a competitive advantage, betting that people will trust, and pay for, a tool that does not hand their words to their boss. Underneath the product story sits a much larger question the whole industry is circling: when AI extracts knowledge from employee communication, who controls it, and who gets to look. As these tools become ubiquitous, the defaults set now, by companies like Granola, may quietly harden into the norms that govern workplace surveillance for years. It is a smart, timely read on a problem most people have not noticed yet.

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## Wortins' read

This Platformer interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal opens up a fight that is only beginning: who actually owns the transcripts that AI notetakers generate from our conversations. Pedregal stakes out an unusually firm position, saying he flatly refuses requests from executives who want full surveillance access to their employees' meeting transcripts, and describes exploring automatic deletion of verbatim records over time. The piece situates that stance in a market rushing the other way, as invisible AI bots quietly capture more and more of what happens in meetings. Granola treats privacy as both an ethical line and a competitive advantage, betting that people will trust, and pay for, a tool that does not hand their words to their boss. Underneath the product story sits a much larger question the whole industry is circling: when AI extracts knowledge from employee communication, who controls it, and who gets to look. As these tools become ubiquitous, the defaults set now, by companies like Granola, may quietly harden into the norms that govern workplace surveillance for years. It is a smart, timely read on a problem most people have not noticed yet.

## Source

[Read the full story at Platformer](https://www.platformer.news/granola-chris-pedregal-interview/)

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