Akshay Kothari
Co-Founder & COO, Notion
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Latest conversation · In The Blink Of AI
"AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of NotionAbout Notion
Notion makes an all-in-one workspace app that brings notes, documents, wikis, project roadmaps and task lists into one customisable tool for individuals, teams and companies. Notion 3.0, released in September 2025, rebuilt its AI features as agents. The San Francisco company was started by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last; Akshay Kothari later joined as a third co-founder and chief operating officer.
- Sector
- Productivity / workspace software
- Business model
- B2B SaaS
- Founded
- 2013
- Founders
- Ivan Zhao, Simon Last, Akshay Kothari
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
- Offices
- San Francisco
Sources: notion.com, sequoiacap.com, en.wikipedia.org
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Andrew McCarthy
General Manager, EMEA, Notion
“The ability to control how you work the software around your process, instead of changing your process to fit software, can unlock creativity and value.” Hear the conversation
1 episodeHear from the team.
In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy "AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion
With Akshay Kothari
In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy Why Notion Is Betting on AI Building Blocks – with Andrew McCarthy, GM ANZ at Notion
With Andrew McCarthy
Milestones.
- Founded by Ivan Zhao, Simon Last and Akshay Kotharisequoiacap.com
- Released Notion 1.0 after a near-shutdown in 2015kitrum.com
- Raised US$275M at a US$10B valuationkitrum.com
- Launched Notion 3.0 with autonomous AI agentsnotion.com
In conversation.
Moments from other conversations on the network where Notion comes up.
“So Notion, they're doing incredible stuff with agents. So anything that Notion is demanding that they need from an infrastructure perspective.”
“when I got back to my desk, I just said, great, can you summarize the above into a Notion document?”
“we have the privilege of serving some really kind of forward-thinking go-to-market teams with the likes of Notion and Zapier, Atlassian, and it's been really, really exciting to do that.”
On Diaspora NZ with David Booth
S3 | E4 - Bowen Pan (Common Room) on launching Facebook Marketplace, spotting hidden opportunities, and mastering the art of product · 1:08:50“I would say probably Notion AI's like tools. So basically it's such a dump of everything we've worked on. And so I really like, it's just like embedded AI feature cuz it allows you to do like conversational search.”
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