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Limitless Pendant Remembered Everything - Until the Future Moved On
This clever little meeting memory made forgetting optional and consent unavoidable. Then Meta bought the company, sales stopped, and a product built to preserve the past acquired a very short future.
Limitless Remembered Everything. Then Meta Ended the Experiment.
A tiny microphone made a persuasive case for outsourcing your memory. Then an acquisition turned the most important buying question from ‘Does it work?’ into ‘How long will it work?’
Plaud NotePin S Wants Your Notebook's Job - and Your Subscription
For interviewers, clinicians, students, and meeting-heavy professionals, this tiny recorder can turn a day of talk into usable notes. The catch is deciding whether fewer scribbles are worth a $179 device and an eventual software bill.
Plaud NotePin Lets Meeting People Listen Again - For $159 Plus Minutes
This 0.59-ounce recorder turns a day of talk into transcripts, summaries and action items. It is built for people whose job happens in rooms, but the subscription math deserves a look before the pin goes on your lapel.
The $189 Meeting Card That Wants Your Notebook's Job
Plaud Note Pro turns phone calls and crowded rooms into searchable notes. The clever bit is the button; the catch is deciding whether another subscription deserves a seat in every meeting.
Nathan Xu
Nathan Xu (also known as Xu Gao) is the co-founder and CEO of Plaud AI, the company behind the world's best-selling AI voice recorder and notetaker. A serial entrepreneur who failed three times before hitting gold, Xu bootstrapped Plaud from a Kickstarter campaign in 2023 to $180M+ ARR by 2025 - without a single dollar of venture capital. His credit-card-sized Plaud Note and wearable NotePin devices, which transcribe, summarize, and analyze conversations in 112 languages, have shipped to over 1.5 million users in 170+ countries. Based in San Francisco with roots in Wuhan, China, Xu represents a new breed of transpacific founder betting that the next great hardware platform fits in your pocket - or around your neck.