Why Building With AI Got Easy and Maintaining It Got Brutal with Fathom CEO Richard White artwork
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Why Building With AI Got Easy and Maintaining It Got Brutal with Fathom CEO Richard White

Jul 29, 2026 · 35:06

Building software has never been easier. Keeping it alive has never been harder. Most founders adopting AI right now have only priced in the first half of that sentence. Richard White is the founder and CEO of Fathom, the top rated AI note taker on G2. He started the company just before 2020 on two bets almost nobody agreed with: transcription costs would fall to zero, and AI would get good enough…