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Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak
- ▶ 23:32 Melisa Tokmak Um, that even thought about these things for the long term, like imagine Palantir or SpaceX or Notion who really care about craftsmanship and really delivering for their audience for many, many years have struggled with this.
From Note-Taking App to AI Workspace: The Simon Last Interview
- ▶ 0:08 Sarah Guo Today, I'm here with Simon Last, co-founder at Notion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:26 Sarah Guo Notion's at scale, amazing platform, lots of users. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47 Sarah Guo Did you start with like a particular vision of like what you should obviously be able to do with AI and Notion or just start pulling people from different teams or recruiting people and say like, let's experiment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:48 Simon Last The next, the next big thing that we immediately started working on was a Q&A. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:26 Simon Last Basically, well, what we did is immediately, uh, as soon as we got the Notion index working, it, it was obvious that, oh, okay, we should index everything else as well.
- ▶ 6:03 Sarah Guo How did you, um, think about the diversity of how people organize their workspaces, and just their, I mean, even Notion is not, use of it is not homogenous, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:17 Sarah Guo Ivan said, I should ask you, um, how many times you've rebuilt Notion and rebuilt your harnesses? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:41 Sarah Guo What do you think has most dramatically changed in how you think about how, um, engineering and product should work at Notion over the last two, three years? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 Simon Last I mean, it's like, there's, there's more, there's way more prototypes, uh, you know, people are, like, uh, for example, our, uh, uh, design team made an, made an entire, uh, uh, Git repo, uh, they call it, uh, the design playground, and…
- ▶ 12:50 Sarah Guo When you think about where you said the general assistant, like, doesn't quite exist yet, um, what's the, what do you imagine Notion's agent, agents being able to do, like, over the next 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Simon Last Um, so the diffuse notion AI now it's like the full agent has access to everything in notion pretty much.
- ▶ 15:40 Sarah Guo Given you have a, you know, Notion is at scale, but is operating in a landscape of productivity and platform players that are at even more scale, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:39 Sarah Guo Um, you give the agents access to the tools that we humans have in notion. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:40 Sarah Guo What about on the Notion agent side? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:19 Simon Last You know, they do all these kind of workflows in like Slack and Notion, kind of like, like manual work like that.
- ▶ 26:11 Sarah Guo Has your, like, core conception of Notion changed over the last few years because of all the AI stuff? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:35 Sarah Guo This has been a super great discussion about how we're all going to become agent managers and, uh, uh, hopefully in Notion.
The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
- ▶ 1:33 Jesse Zhang Yeah, like, uh, like Rippling, Notion, folks like them, they were like great partners, and they also just helped us iterate on the product a lot.
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 20:47 Thomas Dohmke And then you can, similar to a Notion doc, just modify that, um, and basically add stuff to the, to the specification.
No Priors Ep. 97 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal
- ▶ 0:22 Elad Gil They help companies like Notion, Airtable, Instacart, Zapier, Vercel, and many more with evals, observability, and prompt development for their AI products.
- ▶ 1:57 Ankur Goyal Um, and so, you know, I have very fond memories of the two of us hanging out and talking to a bunch of folks like, you know, Brian and Mike at Zapier and Simon at Notion and, and, you know, many others.
- ▶ 5:54 Elad Gil It's Notion, Airtable, you know, Zapier, people like that, Vercel.
- ▶ 16:28 Ankur Goyal Um, so what we've done at BrainTrust is actually be very deliberate about which customers we prioritize, especially early on, and sort of this, um, hypothesize that, you know, the Zapiers and Notions and so on of the world would have…
- ▶ 28:07 Ankur Goyal Um, I think, you know, companies like Notion, for example, have really driven, um, uh, people's taste, uh, on those products.
No Priors Ep. 72 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
No Priors Ep. 52 | With Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty
- ▶ 7:03 Edo Liberty Notion Q&A now runs on, on Pinecone, and they serve essentially question answering with AI, uh, to tens of thousands and probably hundreds of thousands of, of their own customers.
- ▶ 10:42 Edo Liberty You know, a proper full end-to-end solution, say like Notion Q&A, there's quite a lot that you have to build on top of it.
No Priors Ep. 51 | With Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
- ▶ 0:08 Sarah Guo Today we have Ivan Zhao, co-founder and CEO of Notion, the beloved productivity application for notes, tasks, and knowledge base. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:16 Sarah Guo They recently launched an AI Q&A interface as well as a calendar application.
- ▶ 3:50 Ivan Zhao Notions largely come from that angle, which is the original angle.
- ▶ 5:24 Ivan Zhao Now, just ask Notion AI and you get that in seconds.
- ▶ 5:54 Sarah Guo Or need to make, um, Notion and AI for this company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Sarah Guo So, you have often said that, ah, Notion is less a productivity company than an application building company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:26 Elad Gil So you were one of the earliest adopters of AI in terms of application with any real scale, and I think it's impressive how quickly Notion ended up starting to work in this area. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:55 Ivan Zhao And Simon and some people in Notion saw early demos of GPT. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:44 Ivan Zhao Like, like for Notion, uh, to power the workflows that we really need, like we learn like GPT-IV smart, a cloud to a smart, we need that intelligence to do reasoning or first text summarization.
- ▶ 17:48 Sarah Guo Can you describe the, um, the AI Q&A product? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Ivan Zhao Essentially, everything you put in Notion, Notion can help you remember. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:52 Elad Gil I feel like RAG and embeddings are very under-discussed, or under-appreciated in some sense, relative to the impact that they really seem to be having, or starting to have, and I think Notion Q&A is a great example of that.
- ▶ 21:51 Sarah Guo It's a really interesting framing that I didn't have before of a bunch of the work you're doing at Notion actually eating into like communication.
- ▶ 22:56 Sarah Guo This changes the amount of work people should do in systems like notion at input, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:37 Sarah Guo Vernal's question was, what lessons in history do you take that, um, inform your point of view of like how to treat AI strategy with notion now?
- ▶ 30:07 Sarah Guo It was you, um, early on in the, uh, Notion journey, um, being really design-assessed. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:35 Sarah Guo Notion is a no shoes, was a no shoes place. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:22 Elad Gil Within Notion, are you using a singular underlying LLM, or are you at this point using multiple different things 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:33 Sarah Guo Uh, software more broadly that you think are outside of Notion scope that you think are going to change a great deal from AI? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:39 Sarah Guo Maybe you can talk about the market as you see it for notion. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 36 | With Hubspot's Co-Founder Brian Halligan
- ▶ 3:54 Brian Halligan Groove was like a little bit of Dropbox, a little bit of Slack, a little bit of Notion.
No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 25:59 Guillermo Rauch Of course, you also have the, you know, content hubs or content collaboration platforms like Notion also add AI.