EO How to Build a Product that Hits PMF on Day 1 | Granola, Christopher Pedregal | EO
Jan 25, 2026
Christopher Pedregal, Co-founder and CEO of Granola, shares insights from his journey in building user-focused AI products. He emphasizes the importance of short user-feedback cycles for effective product development. Pedregal discusses Granola’s innovative meeting-notes functionality and early success. He advocates for consistent design aligned with company values and highlights the need for quick responses to user failures. Additionally, he shares methods for remote user interviews and the significance of iterative prototyping.
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Build A Product With Soul
- A product should feel like it has a coherent personality or 'soul' that reflects consistent values.
- Christopher Pedregal says coherence gets harder as product teams grow and diversify their viewpoints.
Explore First, Then Exploit
- Explore broadly early, then switch to polishing the chosen shape once you see value.
- Christopher Pedregal recommends cutting features aggressively when you identify the core valuable shape.
We Cut Half The Product
- Granola cut about 50% of what they'd built after realizing the core valuable part.
- Pedregal says doing that would have been much harder after a public launch with many users.