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Great problem to tackle. Meetings aren't going away, and they can be improved.

Two questions for the founder:

- How much of this is process vs the tool itself? (How much is this an improvement over Shared Google docs?)

- The company name isn't MeetingLife. What's next on the agenda?

- We think the tool can shape the process. We're hearing from teams that use it that meetings that used to have no agendas now have agendas consistently, meetings that used to go in circles now stay focused and end with clear next steps, etc.

- There's plenty to do to fix meetings (and doing so will help improve people's work life), so that will be our focus for the foreseeable future. Funny enough, we did change the name from MeetingHero, we felt WorkLife was more in line with our fundamental purpose and long term aspiration.

MeetingHero has a ring to it, but I suspect it would wind up with too many Snarky connotations to the person who introduces the software.

What's the big benefit above and beyond using Google Docs?

Again, I'm a big fan of the concept, as fixing Poorly Run Meetings is a solvable problem.

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