First Block: Interview with Ivan Zhao and Simon Last, Co-Founders of Notion
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
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First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of their startup journey - and what they learned from that experience.
In this episode, Akshay sits down with Notion co-founders Ivan Zhao and Simon Last to talk about everything Notion - where we started, how we got where we are now, and where we’re headed.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:06 The Founding Story
04:55 The Early Days
11:43 Reaching Product-Market-Fit
17:53 Building a Lean Team
19:58 Building for All: The Tradeoffs
27:09 Creating a Global Community
30:19 Scaling Company Culture
37:13 The Future of AI
44:32 A Day in the Life of Ivan Zhao and Simon Last 
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Stand up dudes, both Simon and Ivan. Hats off to them for building a fantastic product.
Ivan is the leading force behind this all. without his design thinking and coding skills this wouldn't have come true
Thank you for doing this guys. I was not familiar with the story and listening to this, especially with this great production quality makes it so entertaining. Appreciate you folks taking the time to create this show.
So great to know more about your vision and experience in building Notion. Thank you for this video!
that notion button shirt is sickkkkkkk
wish you guys went in depth how you managed to build a lean team, what challenges you came across and through which process // system you solved the problem
They complement each other well and compensate for each other's weaknesses. Well balanced founding team.
I love to see this and it such a progressive conversation BIG LOVE to all you guys WELL DONE
Great interview!
Thanks !!
I'm impressed by Simon Last's glowing, shinning face. What brand of facial cream does he apply?
Someday I hope to be able to tell Notion - change all my header 2 elements on this page to the color blue
An extension can be made for this, what kind of specific use case would you need such an action for ?
Someday I hope to be able to tell Notion what color blue I’d like to change all my header 2 elements to.
I like them. Real people.
Love the story of sneaking through the bathroom. :)
based
amazing
I'm experiencing an issue with the window control buttons scaling up when I zoom in on Notion in the updated version. This behavior was not present in previous versions, and it seems like a bug！！！！
hello, i was trying to delete a teamspace but it deleted my account and my workspaces with it. is there any way to recover my data?
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Amazed with the lack of chemistry between the founders. It feels like they’re not used to be around each other or talking to each other
I think they'd be much more comfortable without the cameras. The whole format of one "interviewing" the others has just completely killed whatever chemistry they probably really do have. Honestly, I think I'd be just as stilted if one of my friends was interviewing me for a fancy-pants professional-looking RUclips video! Even worse if I were the one doing the interviewing.
I felt exactly the opposite. To me they came across sort of as a couple that's been married for 50 years. Like they understand each other so well that they don't need to speak and express as much all the time.
hahhahahaha ummm I got the opposite. I can almost see their closeness like a married couple.. they know when to allow the other person to talk, they look at each other, knowing that theyre both thinking the same thing, but trying to decide who will be the one to say it. they dont seem to disagree on things at all
what happen？notion save is wrong？？！！什么时候好啊？我怎么工作？我的所有工作，生活，学习系统、数据库都在notion上面
wow "execution eats strategy for lunch, culture eats execution for lunch" 🐻
Notion momentum for DB automation sucks, but early stage of Notion momentum when introducing Notion DB is great revolutionary!!!
Ivan Zhao is amazingly insightful, but coo needs to be replaced(No offence, software startup die of cliche execution and mediocre Idea )
As Notion plus and deep care person, notion automation is a moonshot breakpoint when software can truly automate hosting connection to all area of daily productivity, from external saving the bookmark to internal DB sync with conditional logic.
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Notion is a software fashion company. Nothing actually new.
pls lol. Don’t do it again. Write a blog or sth instead. Rather go watch mr beast. Home page just right of yall