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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 one of the things I realized as a student, the superpower of meeting investors is that what I saw in Pulse was like just another RSS reader. And what she saw in Pulse was this next generation browser for the iPad. And it really sort of made my idea like 100x stronger, just like having that meeting and having her talk about like someone seeing the vision even before you do it.

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 one of the things I realized as a student, the superpower of meeting investors is that what I saw in Pulse was like just another RSS reader. And what she saw in Pulse was this next generation browser for the iPad. And it really sort of made my idea like 100x stronger, just like having that meeting and having her talk about like someone seeing the vision even before you do it.

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 one of the things I realized as a student, the superpower of meeting investors is that what I saw in Pulse was like just another RSS reader. And what she saw in Pulse was this next generation browser for the iPad. And it really sort of made my idea like 100x stronger, just like having that meeting and having her talk about like someone seeing the vision even before you do it.

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 think that was incredible.

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 think that was incredible.

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 think that was incredible.

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 think in general, I would say almost all advice is genius for a subset of people and completely rubbish for the rest of them. I think you can take literally everything. I mean, even founder mode. Founder mode is really good if you have a founder who's right a lot. If they're not, God bless that company.

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 think in general, I would say almost all advice is genius for a subset of people and completely rubbish for the rest of them. I think you can take literally everything. I mean, even founder mode. Founder mode is really good if you have a founder who's right a lot. If they're not, God bless that company.

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 think in general, I would say almost all advice is genius for a subset of people and completely rubbish for the rest of them. I think you can take literally everything. I mean, even founder mode. Founder mode is really good if you have a founder who's right a lot. If they're not, God bless that company.

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 I think, I don't know, I think I've moved away from giving advice to more share my experience with what happened at Notion or Pulse, because I found that to be like, I think hopefully you can take the right learnings from them and apply it to what your situation is. What have you changed your mind on in the last 12 months? One of the things I think my wife was right on this one.

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 I think, I don't know, I think I've moved away from giving advice to more share my experience with what happened at Notion or Pulse, because I found that to be like, I think hopefully you can take the right learnings from them and apply it to what your situation is. What have you changed your mind on in the last 12 months? One of the things I think my wife was right on this one.

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 I think, I don't know, I think I've moved away from giving advice to more share my experience with what happened at Notion or Pulse, because I found that to be like, I think hopefully you can take the right learnings from them and apply it to what your situation is. What have you changed your mind on in the last 12 months? One of the things I think my wife was right on this one.

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

One of the things I used to do about a year or two ago was try to like pack up every hour of my kids weekend with like activities. And I was like, oh, they can't be bored. Like they got to do this. They got to do that. And then, you know, we just spent like a month in India this summer and they had no programming and they were just like sitting around with family and

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

One of the things I used to do about a year or two ago was try to like pack up every hour of my kids weekend with like activities. And I was like, oh, they can't be bored. Like they got to do this. They got to do that. And then, you know, we just spent like a month in India this summer and they had no programming and they were just like sitting around with family and

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

One of the things I used to do about a year or two ago was try to like pack up every hour of my kids weekend with like activities. And I was like, oh, they can't be bored. Like they got to do this. They got to do that. And then, you know, we just spent like a month in India this summer and they had no programming and they were just like sitting around with family and

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

In many cases, my daughter complained she was bored, but I think both of them grew so much with all these interactions. And I've realized that, I don't know, boredom is good. I think it's okay for them to not be occupied every hour of the day. What concerns you most in the world today? I think this like general TikTokification of every social app, I'm really worried about that.

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

In many cases, my daughter complained she was bored, but I think both of them grew so much with all these interactions. And I've realized that, I don't know, boredom is good. I think it's okay for them to not be occupied every hour of the day. What concerns you most in the world today? I think this like general TikTokification of every social app, I'm really worried about that.

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

In many cases, my daughter complained she was bored, but I think both of them grew so much with all these interactions. And I've realized that, I don't know, boredom is good. I think it's okay for them to not be occupied every hour of the day. What concerns you most in the world today? I think this like general TikTokification of every social app, I'm really worried about that.

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

Every social app has become like one or two clicks away from infinite stream of viral videos, which I think is like just really sad. Has it not helped, Notion?

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

Every social app has become like one or two clicks away from infinite stream of viral videos, which I think is like just really sad. Has it not helped, Notion?