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ivan zhao
First, build something people want. Community cannot be forced. It’s something that buds organically around what people value and want to talk about. If your product solve a real problem and you find the right early adopters (pre-requisites for being able to grow) — look out for where these people are talking.
Jaryd Hermann • How Notion Grows
Notion users can either manually enter it in or find some sort of transfer tool. This transfer of outside data is the second avenue of attack that Notion is employing. In September of this year, they announced the acquisition of automate.io (a Zapier competitor), which allows customers to set up data transfers between disparate system with no API a... See more
Evan Armstrong • How Do You Compete with Free? Notion: the embattled artist
More than a decade ago, in 2011, a young artist Ivan Zhao graduated from one of the top Canadian universities: the University of British Columbia. As a self-taught programmer from a young age, Ivan opted not to get a formal education in programming, choosing to study cognitive science (with a minor in photography) instead. But soon after graduating
... See moreAli Abouelatta • ✨Notion
I think this ultimately ends up being a yes/and scenario. Microsoft is going to do Microsoft and will capture large swaths of the market simply by copying Notion’s brilliance. Notion will have a strong bottom’s up and community driven sales motion that enables them to grow for a long, long time.