Sam Liang
CEO & Cofounder, Otter.ai
Sam Liang is the Founder and CEO of Otter.ai, based in Mountain View, California. Otter.ai is the world’s leading meeting transcription and team collaboration tool. Teams connect Otter to their calendars and video conferencing apps to capture, store and even collaborate using their notes from every meeting. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom and Tesla. Before Otter, he was the CEO and co-founder of Alohar Mobile which created the first mobile location context platform. Before that, Sam was the lead on Google’s Map Location Platform and API team. Previously, Sam was the CEO and Co-Founder of Alohar Mobile Inc in Palo Alto, California, which created world’s first mobile location context platform. Alohar was later successfully acquired by Alibaba. Before that, Sam was the lead of Google Map Location Platform & API for four years. Sam got his Ph.D in EE from Stanford University, specialized in large scale distributed Internet systems.