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Akshay Kothari

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

And he said no, because deep down he wanted to be, you know, the CEO's coach. And he said some of the board stuff around, I think, requires him to think about the company before he can think about the CEO.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

And he said no, because deep down he wanted to be, you know, the CEO's coach. And he said some of the board stuff around, I think, requires him to think about the company before he can think about the CEO.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

Exactly.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

Exactly.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

Exactly.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

You know, with kids sort of reread some of the Indian epics. And so there's a part in Mahabharata called the Bhagavad Gita. And some of those principles in Bhagavad Gita are so timeless that I think are worth reading again.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

You know, with kids sort of reread some of the Indian epics. And so there's a part in Mahabharata called the Bhagavad Gita. And some of those principles in Bhagavad Gita are so timeless that I think are worth reading again.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

You know, with kids sort of reread some of the Indian epics. And so there's a part in Mahabharata called the Bhagavad Gita. And some of those principles in Bhagavad Gita are so timeless that I think are worth reading again.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

By the way, these two questions are really awesome questions that I think I found them in Lulu's application. I think job application is fantastic. So there's an essay. I think one of the inspirations for Notion has been Alan Kay and his work. He's one of the computing pioneers. He actually wrote an essay in 2008 where he said why the computer revolution still has not happened.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

By the way, these two questions are really awesome questions that I think I found them in Lulu's application. I think job application is fantastic. So there's an essay. I think one of the inspirations for Notion has been Alan Kay and his work. He's one of the computing pioneers. He actually wrote an essay in 2008 where he said why the computer revolution still has not happened.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

By the way, these two questions are really awesome questions that I think I found them in Lulu's application. I think job application is fantastic. So there's an essay. I think one of the inspirations for Notion has been Alan Kay and his work. He's one of the computing pioneers. He actually wrote an essay in 2008 where he said why the computer revolution still has not happened.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

And he sort of talks in detail about why a lot of the computing devices are mostly used for consumption. It's not used for creating things that the pioneers had thought about.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

And he sort of talks in detail about why a lot of the computing devices are mostly used for consumption. It's not used for creating things that the pioneers had thought about.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

And he sort of talks in detail about why a lot of the computing devices are mostly used for consumption. It's not used for creating things that the pioneers had thought about.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

I personally would have loved Charlie Munger. Talk about like long-term thinking, long-term business building. Sad that he passed away, but him and Warden are sort of like my heroes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

I personally would have loved Charlie Munger. Talk about like long-term thinking, long-term business building. Sad that he passed away, but him and Warden are sort of like my heroes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

I personally would have loved Charlie Munger. Talk about like long-term thinking, long-term business building. Sad that he passed away, but him and Warden are sort of like my heroes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

So for me, I think I graduated 2010. I won't go into too much detail, but I built this like small little app in my class project at Stanford that became a company called Pulse. And I remember meeting an investor, Emily Melton, was at Mayfield then, then she went to DF Change, now she runs her own fund.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

So for me, I think I graduated 2010. I won't go into too much detail, but I built this like small little app in my class project at Stanford that became a company called Pulse. And I remember meeting an investor, Emily Melton, was at Mayfield then, then she went to DF Change, now she runs her own fund.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Notion's Founder on "Founder Mode": When it Works & When it Doesn't | Why The Way Startups Fundraise & Construct Boards is Broken | Raising at a $10BN Valuation in Peak Bubble Times and How Notion Has More Money Than Ever Before with Akshay Kothari

So for me, I think I graduated 2010. I won't go into too much detail, but I built this like small little app in my class project at Stanford that became a company called Pulse. And I remember meeting an investor, Emily Melton, was at Mayfield then, then she went to DF Change, now she runs her own fund.