StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

Akshay Kothari

Co-Founder and COO, Notion · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderexecutiveoperatorinvestor@akothari ↗LinkedIn ↗notion.com ↗

Akshay Kothari co-founded and helped scale Notion into a collaborative workspace platform, overseeing operations, product strategy, and key fundraising rounds. Previously, he co-founded the mobile news app Pulse and served as VP of Product and Head of LinkedIn India.

4statements → 0claims → 0claims resolved → 3.5/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential → 4said about them ↓

4 insights · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an assessment.

Everything Akshay Kothari said on the Official SaaStr Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Kothari: Withholding direct feedback from underperforming employees is deeply unkind
“Directness is kindness. Like, if someone's not performing inside the company, if you're not direct with them, you are actually doing one of the most unkind things to them.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 17:42 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health
Insight
Kothari: Asynchronous written collaboration is best for employee inclusion
“Writing docs and asynchronously commenting is one of the best ways you can actually include all your employees.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 18:54 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health
Insight
Kothari: Company values must directly extend the founders' personal values
“I think the core company's values is the extension of founders' values. I think it has to be true, otherwise I feel like it wouldn't work, so it has to be compatible.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 27:03 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health
Insight
Notion's Kothari: Companies should maintain only three to five values
“I think ideally you can keep it to three to five values. I think anything more feels like hard to remember.”
Akshay Kothari Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 34:06 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health

The other half of the tape: Akshay Kothari's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 2 episodes on the Official SaaStr Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Olivia Nottebohm 3Lucy Fonseca 1

Every mention by year

tap a year for its mentions
0021312021202220232024episodesmentions
0112021202220232024episodes it came up in
001.50.5312021202220232024episodesmentions per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health Sep 14, 2022 11m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 400 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more