Ivan Zhao, every mention

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▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Now, I spoke to Ivan before the show. 4 times in the scene
▶ 3:05 Akshay Kothari So one thing Ivan
▶ 5:35 Akshay Kothari Well, so I think if you go back to Notion and sort of why we did some of these things, I think a lot of it came from Ivan, um, really sort of prioritizing keeping a very small team. 4 times in the scene
▶ 9:10 Harry Stebbings What did you and Ivan veto?
▶ 10:59 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Ivan again before, and he said, listen, he, he's basically hired every single leader at Notion at this point, Harry. 3 times in the scene
▶ 21:52 Akshay Kothari I also have to credit Ivan here, because in the early days, I think, you know, you know this, a lot of investors did knock on our doors. 3 times in the scene
▶ 39:24 Akshay Kothari Ivan and I actually tried very hard to get him to be a board member at, uh, you know, our first board member at Notion, and, and he said no, because in deep down, he wanted to be, you know, the CEO's coach.

▶ 44:48 Phin Barnes Ivan at Notion is going to figure out how to create a digital tool that is as elegant as a blank piece of paper and a pen.
▶ 46:10 Phin Barnes Um, I think that in the first case, whether it's Travis needing to know that there's UberX or it's Ivan needing to know that there's going to be, you know,
▶ 51:10 Phin Barnes Um, I learned, I learned many of those things from, from Ivan, um, Akshay, watching them, watching them build that business, uh, helping them recruit people to, to join that business and seeing it, seeing it scale.
▶ 54:47 Phin Barnes So I want, I want a founder like Ivan who comes out of design and is quirky in some ways and a genius in most ways and, and is just product obsessed and wants to build tools. 2 times in the scene

▶ 4:25 Olivia Nottebohm He had been chatting with Ivan and Akshay over at Notion, and they were thinking through some things, and he connected us, and so we were just chatting about the business. 2 times in the scene
▶ 25:59 Olivia Nottebohm Ivan still interviews everyone, which I deeply, deeply respect. 4 times in the scene

▶ 7:52 Dannie Herzberg Notion is the first company that I've partnered with since joining Sequoia, and I've known Ivan and Akshay for almost four years.

▶ 14:58 unnamed speaker I have a lot of respect for Ivan and Simon from Notion.

▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings Elad Gill and Notion's own Ivan Zhao for some truly fantastic questions and suggestions today.
▶ 4:23 Akshay Kothari Yeah, so I've known Ivan for almost a decade now. 3 times in the scene
▶ 7:17 Sarah Cannon Ivan, I could glean that he was interested in photography by what I could read on the internet, on Twitter. 9 times in the scene
▶ 24:00 Akshay Kothari And I think the founders, Ivan and Simon, really push our thinking around every additional hire that we're making.
▶ 29:23 Sarah Cannon Fundamentally, my job, or our job as venture capitalists, is to find exceptional businesses and partner with them, and you know, our business is one of outliers, and so when you have the opportunity to partner with people like Akshay,…
▶ 32:08 Sarah Cannon Ivan and I actually talked about this recently, so I'd recommend that one too as well, Harry. 2 times in the scene

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