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Episode
How Notion Grew to $10B
with Ivan Zhao, Notion CEO · 1:12:44
Suggested questions
What did Ivan say about their early growth strategy?
Pull the best quote about building without VC pressure
What were the key product decisions that led to $10B?
Summarise the section on hiring and culture
What's the most shareable moment in this episode?
Echo
Ivan talked about this around the 28-minute mark. He said they specifically avoided VC pressure because they wanted to build at their own pace — here's the key quote:
"We didn't want anyone telling us the product wasn't ready to ship. We wanted to be embarrassed by it ourselves first. The moment you take institutional money, someone else's timeline becomes your timeline."
— Ivan Zhao, 28:14
He returned to this theme later at 51:22, saying the bootstrapped period was when they made their most important product decisions without external pressure.
Echo
Here's a LinkedIn post built from that moment:
Notion hit $10B without a traditional sales team.
Their CEO Ivan Zhao told me exactly why they avoided VC money early on:
"The moment you take institutional money, someone else's timeline becomes your timeline."
He wanted to be embarrassed by the product himself before anyone told them it was ready to ship.
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