If you have a backdoor way for someone in power to use all this context to make judgment calls in that way, that doesn't feel right to me, and that's not a future we want to build towards

I think it's an opportunity if it's bottoms-up, and I think it stresses me out if it's top-down. If you're saying, I don't think my manager is very good — help me navigate how I should work with my manager — I think that's great. I think it's empowering. CEOs will ask us all the time, saying: I want everyone at my company using Granola, and I want access to all the transcripts and all the notes to run the queries that you're talking about. And we say no. That's not what the tool is built for. You can set that up if you want, but then you have to create a company culture and set an expectation, and everyone needs to share their notes and understand what they're getting into. But there's no backdoor way. I think that's a slippery slope. If you have a backdoor way for someone in power to use all this context to make judgment calls in that way, that doesn't feel right to me, and that's not a future we want to build towards.

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