Akshay Kothari
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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.
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.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Exactly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.