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Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 1:18:50 Rory O'Driscoll A whole bunch of attempts at personal, obviously, um, the Airtable and Notion discussed, but Notion did a good job of getting more corporate, right? 2 times in the scene
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 4:33 Jason Lemkin My, me having churned, and Amelia having churned, we churned, um, just not because, this is a tough one, Canva and Notion, both we churned, not because they're not great apps, we just no longer had any need for them in the agentic area,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Rory O'Driscoll They definitely do, and it's funny because just taking the Airtable account, we all, I used to mentally say to myself, I'm sure you did, Airtable and Notion, you had them in the bucket of being the same, and then, I mean, I don't know if… 2 times in the scene
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 46:48 Alex Atallah Um, and that has played out, you know, like in notion, you can like choose the model that you, you talk to.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 9:38 Jason Lemkin And then there was Notion, which turned a database into a document that I didn't even realize. 2 times in the scene
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:05 Mike Mignano Notion, a very well-funded startup, launched a directly competitive product, and 2 times in the scene
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:42 Patrick Forquer You know, we use notion really heavily. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:42 Patrick Forquer We have all that available for them in the new hire sort of notion.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:06 Jason Lemkin So it just may be this kind of ties to notion saying that, uh, you know, um, that, um, open source LLMs are fine.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:07 Harry Stebbings Are Notion charging for it? 7 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:20 Harry Stebbings Dude, we've seen, we mentioned Monday, we see companies like Notion, like Amplitude, I'm mixing publics and privates, but kind of growth stage companies and even privates, um, do bolt on strategies. 4 times in the scene
Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:40 Harry Stebbings Okay, so I'm a startup founder, and I'm like, wow, you know, Sarah led growth at, ah, fuck, I don't know, Notion, and I'm not picking on them, just like choosing a random company. 2 times in the scene
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:47 Harry Stebbings And I sit in these operator groups, and they're like, ooh, I hear clay's really hot, or ooh, I hear, like, Notion's really hot, and they just jump.
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 27:41 Harry Stebbings And when we look at like a Notion, I, I know Notion obviously a competitor, so forgive me for bringing in a competitor, but it is, it's like, you know, they, they obviously have calendar integrated now.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:26 unnamed speaker And that's why notion to me was, it's not on this list, but notion was the biggest surprise of this Uber group for me, because I didn't think they could charge this much for their agent. 8 times in the scene
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:15 Harry Stebbings I mean, Jonathan, these guys are so far off adopting Slack and Notion, let alone building custom models and embracing the latest AI tools.
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:07 Harry Stebbings We don't have Notion.
20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
- ▶ 50:15 unnamed speaker I look at Notion, and I look at Airtable, and I look at all these companies. 2 times in the scene
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:30 Alex Bouaziz I was talking to my board member, we were keeping this in, like, Google Doc and Notion.
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:43 Harry Stebbings It's just Notion hitting five hundred million of error, I thought was really impressive, you know, and accelerating. 6 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:19 unnamed speaker Take on that, because you, you'd mentioned the Notion comment of spending 10% of the revenue on, um, you know, on AI, on GPUs and inference and model training, right? 2 times in the scene
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:59 Jason Lemkin But this, I, there's so many charlatans on X and LinkedIn that are like, SaaS is dead because over the weekend I rolled my own Notion, HubSpot, um, uh, um, my whole entire stack at Jira.
- ▶ 49:37 Jason Lemkin Now, what's clear is folks that are, folks that, that, like, think they're going to vibe code their own notion an hour, they churn.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Kim leads sales, pre-sales, customer success, and renewals at Notion, where she recently spearheaded record-breaking twenty-twenty-four growth and led the expansion of Notion's AI-powered go-to-market strategy across North America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 Kim Graves Now I lead our go-to-market team across the Americas at Notion.
- ▶ 9:06 Kim Graves I was going to add, and that's actually something that we've brought into our sales process here at Notion.
- ▶ 11:38 Kim Graves This was the same at Slack and at Notion, where we love selling the product, and our customers who are using the product love hearing 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:24 Kim Graves We have both Gong, which records the calls and the video, but we also use Notion AI internally to transcribe those calls.
- ▶ 30:10 Kim Graves And we're actually redesigning our onboarding program at notion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:25 Harry Stebbings Notion? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:49 Kim Graves Well, internally we use Notion AI that's powered by the best models like ChatGPT, Cloud, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:36 Kim Graves Seller can actually probably sell that quite well, but when you're selling solutions like Notion and Slack, like, we're a long, long ways away to ever being able to take those sales roles.
- ▶ 58:03 Kim Graves And so we'll say here, like the fastest growing companies like OpenAI, Vercel, Perplexity, they're all relying on Notion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:42 Harry Stebbings The why now on Notion versus like a cybersecurity company where it's like, you've just had a hack, you just lost three million customer details, you're fucked if this happens again. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:22 Kim Graves It is in my DNA to just do it, to build, to showcase that I can do it, and I think it's being okay with not always having doing as the outcome, like writing the next Slack message, creating the next Notion document, ensuring that I'm doing… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:57 Kim Graves Specifically at a scale-up like Notion, you need to hire someone who is familiar with doing the big deals, but also scrappy enough that they're willing to be resourceful and build from scratch. 2 times in the scene
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:33 unnamed speaker I want to come in on this because I actually read, I don't even know who wrote it because I can't, because Notion's got such a shitty UI. 3 times in the scene
Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:09 Harry Stebbings I was on, on a call with a massive bank this morning and they were like, Harry, there's no way that we can use notion, let alone use AI tools, dude.
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 46:49 Harry Stebbings You know, the notion templates on TikTok has also been unbelievably successful for them.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:12 Jason Lemkin And now you can MCP into Notion.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:27 Jason Lemkin Or this device or on our screen or in the background, like granola or notion, like it's always going to be listening. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:08 Jason Lemkin I think is, I just tried the one on notion and sub stack were on it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 1:46 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
- ▶ 1:01:40 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 1:27 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
- ▶ 42:13 Harry Stebbings I'm thinking European incumbents who still don't know what Slack and Notion is, let alone are adopting AI first principles.
- ▶ 1:25:11 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:11 Harry Stebbings For a lot of scale ups, say your notions, your canvas, you're in that realm, like AI, and I think they've done it well by the way, but like AI is added to an existing product base.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:14 Harry Stebbings Enterprises, especially in Europe, do not know what Slack is, let alone what Notion is.
- ▶ 56:39 Harry Stebbings Which is like your notions of the world? 2 times in the scene
Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password: How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:21 Harry Stebbings Yeah, no, um, notion dropped out. 2 times in the scene
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:53 Harry Stebbings Is it a notion?
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:32 Max Levchin A separate conversation is documented in a Google doc or a notion or in whatever tool we're using for this topic, but it's segregated.
Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:35 Harry Stebbings Before it was always like, oh, I want Figma, or I want WID, or Notion, or whatever.
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:54 Harry Stebbings 91% don't know what Notion is.
Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:06 Akshay Kothari There's more cash in Notions Bank today than the history of its race.
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings Uh, and what I heard was actually that you have had so many different hats across the Notion journey, from CMO to CFO to Head of Inside Sales, CHRO, Head of IR, CPO,
- ▶ 2:17 Akshay Kothari Yeah, so let's, the first job I had at Notion was actually, like, the three people reported to me were support, customer support, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 Akshay Kothari 12 designers sort of designed the entire sort of surface of Notion, including Calendar, um, and it really allows us to move faster.
- ▶ 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. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:24 Harry Stebbings What unmade decision does notion have that is heavy? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:21 Harry Stebbings Which person do you think has had the most profound impact, maybe on you and your leadership, maybe on Notion as a company, when I ask? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:22 Akshay Kothari Like, in, in some ways, like, yeah, in some ways, like, there's, there's more cash in Notions Bank today than the history of its race, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:33 Akshay Kothari Well, I think the, I mean, going back to what we discussed, right, I think in the very long term, it will, uh, be a function of, uh, the company's sort of multiple, the function of, you know, multiple of revenue, and the premium we'll get… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:39 Akshay Kothari The question is whether you can actually really scale this product to a hundred million users and beyond, because that's, that's the future we see with Notion.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 42:16 Akshay Kothari Uh, and so, so I think, I don't know, I think I've moved away from giving advice to, um, to sort of, like, more share my experience with what happened at Notion or Pulse, because I found that to be, like, I think hopefully you can take the… 3 times in the scene
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:43 Harry Stebbings I look at notion and I look at air table and I look at all these companies actually question for you. 2 times in the scene
Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:30 Harry Stebbings You know, every company is an AI product company now, whether it's Zendesk with customer support, Notion with note-taking, Canva with design, and it's all AI. 2 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:31 David Cahn That's like Ivan at notion, right?
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:45 Harry Stebbings Same with notion.
- ▶ 1:01:57 Saam Motamedi I know the team at notion.
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:29 David Luan You've got Notion or Google Docs for, for your, for your docs, and then you've got Salesforce for sales, and then you've got, like, um, you've got, like, Workday for HR and all of this stuff, right?
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:52 Harry Stebbings When we look at a lot of the big companies that we see today, and I'm not naming any more denigrating quality or anything like that, but like your air tables, your notions of the world, these are all horizontal SaaS companies.
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:55 Harry Stebbings So I was arguing with someone this morning actually on the way here though, and I was saying like, yes, okay, we have Notion AI
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:11 Aravind Srinivas Like, not just can build pipes to every single, like, enterprise tool like Slack or Notion.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:37 Harry Stebbings Would you buy Notion at 10? 4 times in the scene
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:11 Harry Stebbings 92 don't know what notion is, but like the idea that we are all going to adopt, like the biggest companies will adopt AI overnight, I think is, is naive bluntly.
Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:57 Jiaona Zhang And what I mean by that is in some markets, quality is literally just how beautiful the thing is, you know, in a world where you have a notion versus a Google docs, right? 2 times in the scene
Sarah Tavel: Will Foundation Models Be Commoditised? | E1149 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:28 Sarah Tavel And so there, you know, if you are Notion, if you are Adobe, instead of having to adopt a new product product to do image generation or a new product to do kind of summarization of content, you can just use Notion or Adobe and get access… 2 times in the scene
Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:12 Harry Stebbings If we take something like Notion, there's dentists, there's data scientists, there's mothers and fathers.
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:09 Harry Stebbings Or do you, like, I take the view that, bluntly, we always overestimate adoption in a year and underestimate it in 10 years, and I think it's like, oh, everyone's going to have no jobs, and all of the gross over-dramatization is like, you…
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:55 unnamed speaker You know, I look at your notions, I look at your air tables. 2 times in the scene
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:25 Harry Stebbings Notion, Airtable, where it's like dentists and data scientists both use you at the same time. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Doug Leone, Bill Ackman, Bill Gurley and Orlando Bravo on "Does Price Matter"; When to Pay Up vs When to Stay Disciplined, The Biggest Lessons on Price Discipline from 8 of the World's Best Investors
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings Unless, of course, you're in Notion. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:12 Harry Stebbings You're in Notion. 5 times in the scene
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20 Terrence Rohan Figma, Notion, Hugging Face, uh, Vanta, Robinhood, um, Patreon, Front, just, just to name a few.
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:02 Harry Stebbings When you're Notion or Airtable, you're selling to developers and also to, um,
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:00 Harry Stebbings Um, I, you know, bluntly greenhouse, you sell talent in it, but when you sell air table notion, fuck.
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:13 Scott Belsky You know, a lot of us used Evernote or Notion or other things, and then we said, wait, I want to use this with my team.
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:41 Sam Corcos A bio health hub, which is a notion doc that just has all of the services that they offer.
- ▶ 42:42 Sam Corcos We can tell because you can see in Notion who reads everything.
- ▶ 1:03:22 Sam Corcos We do also every Saturday, we have scheduled family priorities where we have a running notion doc of logistics, things that we argued about that we want to talk about, just dedicated time just to us where we're present and talking about… 2 times in the scene
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:23 Harry Stebbings Like, I don't know your notions of the world, or is it your startups, or is it all of them? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:32 Harry Stebbings And then, sorry, final one, and then I will move on from, I'm loving this, but like every scale up is introducing an AI product, whether it's your notions, whether it's your canvas, whether it's your air tables.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:32 Harry Stebbings We are Notion with AI.
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:32 Harry Stebbings So I'd say like two for me, which is like Notion and Canva, when you look at what they've done in terms of opening up the aperture of templates.
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:44 Harry Stebbings I think Notion's YouTube videos have been exceptional.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:34 Guillermo Rauch So if I have to create the next notion, the next superhuman, the next figma,
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