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Nottebohm: Delay hiring rather than make compromised hires
“Do not make that higher out of deep necessity, and think that you're just going to solve it. It's actually better to go a little longer and wait for the right talent, even though it's hard to operate in that environment. But in the long run, it's the right dec…”
Nottebohm: Executive leaders must not directly own individual work streams
“At a certain point, you're never owning a piece of work yourself, because that then takes away from your ability to coordinate and look forward and think strategically.”
Nottebohm: Positive reference checks lack credibility if they cannot name a weakness
“People know that all of the good things they said about the person aren't credible if they really can't note a weakness.”
Nottebohm: Executive span of control of eight direct reports is optimal
“I do believe in more of a flat structure, so a span of control of eight I feel is very comfortable, especially in my role where I'm really not trying to do the job of any one of the functional leaders on my team, right?”
Nottebohm: GTM teams must operate cohesively while isolating team outcomes
“You operate as a cohesive engine, but actually you do isolate out who is driving what outcome.”
Kothari: Notion Signups Tripled In China And South Korea In One Week
“I think signups in China are up three X. Signups in Korea is up two, three X in just in the last week.”
Kothari: Most Of Notion Was Built By Just Three Engineers
“When I joined, I think a lot of Notion that you and I play with today was built by just three engineers on the team.”
Harry Stebbings holds Notion equity from portfolio company acquisitions
“And at five hundred million in revenue, you could actually squint And see my ten billion dollar stock, which I have since it acquired some of my companies, reasonably being finally up to the watermark of ten billion dollars.”
Notion uses Gong and Notion AI internally for sales call transcription
“We have both Gong, which records the calls and the video, but we also use Notion AI internally to transcribe those calls.”
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.”
Notion expanded its template gallery from 500 to over 4,500 templates
“Well, just last week, my growth team at Notion launched a template gallery, relaunched our template gallery, and released more than 4500 new templates for what you can do on Notion. This is a pretty big change for us. We had only about 500 before the launch, a…”
Nottebohm: Great operations connect functions end-to-end to eliminate friction
“Ops is really about connecting end-to-end how functions work together. I mean that very respectfully, Respectfully. You can have amazing functions in a company, but if they're not working in lockstep with each other, you can have tremendous amount of friction,…”
Nottebohm: Notion forecast calls analyze funnel drivers beyond binary metrics
“That's what the forecast call is for, so that we are truly understanding what's happening in our business. It's not just, like, a set of traffic lights that are red or green, and we move on.”
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.”
Kothari: Notion Had 40 Employees And Zero Remote Experience Pre-Pandemic
“Notion as a company, we're only 40 people, so we very much focused on building this small team in our small office in San Francisco, and we had never really worked distributedly before.”
Kothari: Notion Reallocated Half Its Team To Build Remote Features
“Because we're a small team, we actually put almost half of our team working on features that allows people to be more productive in this unique environment.”
Kothari: Notion Did Not Launch Its Product For Four Years
“And for many years, I thought I lost all my money in Notion because it hadn't launched a product for, I think, four years. And then when it did in 2017, it took off.”
Kothari: Naval Ravikant Wrote Notion's First Angel Check
“I think the exact first one might have been Naval. I think he was the first one who put money in the company and then, but then a lot of other individuals were very close to him.”
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.”