Notion Podcast
Episodes
First Block: Interview with Gabe Pereyra, Co-Founder and President of Harvey
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For a video, transcripts, and a custom Notion x Harvey template, please visit: https://ntn.so/bgpz1oTo learn more about how Notion is supporting st...
First Block: Interview with Gerry Giacomán Colyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Clara
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of th...
First Block: Interview with Garrett Lord, Co-Founder and CEO of Handshake
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For an audio-only podcast, transcripts, and custom Notion x Handshake templates, please visit: https://ntn.so/tgn78cTo learn more about how Notion is ...
First Block: Interview with Jesse Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO of Decagon
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of th...
First Block: Interview with Ant Wilson, Co-Founder and CTO of Supabase
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of th...
First Block: Interview with Fabian Hedin, Co-Founder and CTO of Lovable
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of th...
First Block: Interview with Brendan Foody, Co-Founder & CEO of Mercor
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world's leading companies tell us about the many "firsts" of their startup journeys. W...
First Block: Interview with Varun Anand, Co-Founder of Clay
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of th...
First Block: Interview with Michael Truell, Co-Founder & CEO of Cursor
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of th...
First Block: Interview with Ivan Zhao and Simon Last, Co-Founders of Notion
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full video episode here: https://youtu.be/ZMrjvxCIPpY To learn more about how Notion is supporting startups, please visit: https://ntn.so/rmCdsK Fir...
First Block: Interview with Adeyemi Ajao, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s leading com...
First Block: Interview with Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and CEO of Webflow
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s leading com...
First Block: Interview with Daniela Amodei, Co-founder of Anthropic
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder & COO Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s l...
First Block: Interview with Mathilde Collin, Co-Founder & CEO of Front
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder & COO Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s l...
First Block: Interview with Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder & CEO of Vanta
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder & COO Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s l...
First Block: Interview with Julianna Lamb, Co-Founder & CTO of Stytch
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder & COO Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s l...
First Block: Interview with Parker Conrad, Co-Founder & CEO of Rippling
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
First Block is a Notion series hosted by Notion's Co-Founder & COO Akshay Kothari, where founders and executives from some of the world’s le...
Pioneers: Michael Nielsen
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Nielsen is a quantum physicist, science writer, computer programming researcher, and modern polymath working on tools to expand human capacity...
Pioneers: Andy Matuschak on physically-informed digital interface design
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy is a software engineer, designer, and researcher working on technologies that expand what people can think and do. In past lives he helped build ...
Pioneers: Char Stiles explores tools for expression and experience
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Char Stiles is an artist, educator and programmer whose work uses emerging technologies to bring to light how computers work. Char works and collabora...
Pioneers: Suzanne Ciani explains the composition of her sensory career
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Ciani is a five-time Grammy award-nominated musician, composer, sound designer, and record label executive whose work helped define the sound ...
Pioneers: Loretta Staples' journey through digital and cultural interfaces
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Loretta Staples is a prolific designer and educator whose work designing graphical user interfaces such as those seen on the Macintosh Classic in the ...
Pioneers: Danielle Baskin gives words to her many wondrous worlds
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Baskin is a product designer, situation designer, visual artist, and the founder of numerous small businesses such as Branded Fruit, the firs...
Pioneers: Gretchen McCulloch talks about why we talk the way we do online
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist — an analyst of the language of the internet, for the people of the internet. She's the author of the New...
Pioneers: Omar Rizwan on shaping computers into friendlier forms
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Omar Rizwan is a researcher and developer interested in new computer interfaces and new ways of programming. He previously worked at Stripe, Kha...
Pioneers: Howard Rheingold on the past and present of virtual communities
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Rheingold is a writer known for his specialty covering the development of virtual communities. He was one of the first authors, critics, and te...
Pioneers: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Kay is a prolific computer scientist known by many as the “father of personal computers." He's best known for his work on object-oriented progr...
Pioneers: Jonathan Blow talks good design — for video games, team structure, and beyond
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Blow is an independent video game designer and programmer. He created Braid (2008) and The Witness (2016) — two puzzle games that, when rel...
Pioneers: May-Li Khoe on pulling inspiration from the physical world in digital design
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
May-Li Khoe is a designer, dancer, engineer, and DJ — an interdisciplinary artist-designer who’s spent her career at Apple, Khan Academy, and more...
Pioneers: Experts gather to talk about the impact of Richard Hamming
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A mathematician by training, Richard Hamming contributed significantly to the computer science and telecommunications industries. Of his work in infor...
Pamela Hardt‑English on how she gave computer access to hippies
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pamela Hardt-English was the driving force behind Resource One — the first computerized bulletin board system that linked centers of counterculture ...
Pioneers: Louis Pouzin discusses the early days of the internet
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Louis Pouzin is one of the titans of internet communication. In the early 1970s, he invented the datagram, paving the way for packet communications ne...
Pioneers: Ted Nelson explores what computers could’ve become
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Nelson is the founding designer of Xanadu, the world's first hypertext project. Xanadu's influence on the Internet as we know it today is unmistak...
Pioneers: Stu Card on inventing the future
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stu Card began work in Human Computer Interaction before it even had a name. His was the first PhD in the discipline, and Stu has made fundamental con...
Pioneers: Andy Hertzfeld on building the Macintosh
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of Tools & Craft! We spoke with Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the team that built the original Macintosh. We’ve all s...