Akshay Kothari

10 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2020 by Akshay Kothari · said 8 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Apr 17, 2020 bullish
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Kothari: Notion Was My First Angel Investment
“And Notion was my first investment.”
Akshay Kothari Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 4:40 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
Apr 17, 2020
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Kothari: A 30-Person Startup Was Using 75 Different Software Tools
“I recently talked to a 30 person startup that was already using 75 different pieces of software to do their work.”
Akshay Kothari Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 14:54 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
Apr 17, 2020
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Kothari: Notion Pulled Fundraise Forward Five Months Due To COVID
“We were thinking about maybe raising a small round in the summer, and we just pulled it up about four or five months earlier, tried to get ahead of the macro.”
Akshay Kothari Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 10:36 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
Apr 17, 2020 positive
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Kothari: API Is The Most Requested Notion Feature Across Users
“Interestingly, the number one thing that individual users ask, the personal users ask, And the number one thing that large enterprise asks right now for notion is our API.”
Akshay Kothari Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 16:21 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
Sep 18, 2024
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Kothari: Few 2021-2022 unicorns can show leaders a path to growing into valuations
“I think it is a challenge for a lot of companies when you can't show them a path. And I think it was a bigger challenge in twenty-twenty-two. I think some companies have been able to sort of like show a path or have gotten there. But I think they're probably m…”
Akshay Kothari Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 31:52 Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2024 negative
Insight
Kothari: Omitting sales quotas hurt Notion's early growth
“Some of the best salespeople They join because there is a quota, because they can hit a number, because they can outperform that number. And so actually not having that and not having, you know, the attribution really hurt us, I think the first year or two.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 13:22 Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2024
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Notion waited until 50 employees to codify four core company values
“After about, I think when we were 50 people, we actually, like, did the exercise of codifying the values. And we have four values. We are owners of a mission, We are pace setters, we are truth seekers, and we are kind and direct.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 9:33 Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2024 negative
What-if
Kothari: Reinventing Notion's sales machine cost the company three years
“If I had to do it one function all over again, I would do sales. And the way I would do it is to not try to like overthink it, just do it the way it is run, like a proper sales machine. I think it would have saved three years in that journey.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 15:53 Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2024
Insight
Kothari: High valuations matter internally for startup employee morale and stock retention
“Well, valuation matters internally, I think, to employees. I think they, it matters that, like, you know, the stock that they did get is able to be valued that much and continue to grow in value over the years.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 31:28 Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2024
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Kothari: Notion founders personally conducted final interview for first 500 hires
“I think for up to about 500 people, we're about 700 people today, but up to 500 people, the last interview was always with Ivan or myself.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 6:44 Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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