{"version":"v1","site":{"name":"expectedwrong","url":"https://expectedwrong.com"},"links":{"collection":"https://expectedwrong.com/api/public/posts","rss":"https://expectedwrong.com/rss.xml","llms":"https://expectedwrong.com/llms.txt"},"post":{"slug":"fireflies-perplexity-meeting-participant","title":"The AI in Your Meeting Just Started Talking","subtitle":"Fireflies.ai hits $1B by graduating from notetaker to meeting participant — and bringing Perplexity along.","url":"https://expectedwrong.com/fireflies-perplexity-meeting-participant","api_url":"https://expectedwrong.com/api/public/posts/fireflies-perplexity-meeting-participant","published_at":1749729600,"published_at_iso":"2025-06-12T12:00:00.000Z","updated_at":1771555955,"updated_at_iso":"2026-02-20T02:52:35.000Z","tags":["ai","meetings","fireflies","perplexity","product"],"excerpt":"Fireflies.ai hits $1B by graduating from notetaker to meeting participant — and bringing Perplexity along.","meta_description":"Fireflies.ai hits $1B by graduating from notetaker to meeting participant — and bringing Perplexity along.","reading_time_minutes":1,"word_count":200,"engagement":{"signals":0,"counterpoints":0},"body_markdown":"Fireflies.ai started as a bot that sat in your meetings and took notes. Passive. Inert. The digital equivalent of the intern who's not sure if they're supposed to be here.\n\nThat product just hit a billion-dollar valuation.\n\nNow they've added Perplexity as an active meeting participant — not a notetaker, not a transcript, but something that joins the call and can answer questions in real time. You're mid-meeting arguing about whether a competitor launched something last quarter, and instead of someone tabbing out to Google, an entity on the call already knows.\n\nThis is the progression. Passive AI first — it listens, it records, it summarizes after. Then active AI — it's in the room, it has opinions, it can be addressed directly. The notetaker became a colleague.\n\nWhat's interesting isn't the Perplexity integration specifically, it's what $1B says about the underlying premise. Somebody valued \"AI in your meetings\" at ten figures, which means the market has decided that the meeting is a surface worth owning — not just the output of the meeting, not the calendar, not the follow-up email, but the meeting itself, in real time.\n\nThe passive phase was a trojan horse. This was always the destination.\n","body_text":"Fireflies.ai started as a bot that sat in your meetings and took notes. Passive. Inert. The digital equivalent of the intern who's not sure if they're supposed to be here. That product just hit a billion-dollar valuation. Now they've added Perplexity as an active meeting participant — not a notetaker, not a transcript, but something that joins the call and can answer questions in real time. You're mid-meeting arguing about whether a competitor launched something last quarter, and instead of someone tabbing out to Google, an entity on the call already knows. This is the progression. Passive AI first — it listens, it records, it summarizes after. Then active AI — it's in the room, it has opinions, it can be addressed directly. The notetaker became a colleague. What's interesting isn't the Perplexity integration specifically, it's what $1B says about the underlying premise. Somebody valued \"AI in your meetings\" at ten figures, which means the market has decided that the meeting is a surface worth owning — not just the output of the meeting, not the calendar, not the follow-up email, but the meeting itself, in real time. The passive phase was a trojan horse. This was always the destination.","hindsight":{"verdict":"persists","note":"The progression from passive AI notetaker to active meeting participant continues. Fireflies hit a billion-dollar valuation on that trajectory. The AI in your meeting is still finding its voice.","links":[],"at":1739980800,"at_iso":"2025-02-19T16:00:00.000Z"}}}