How Notion Reimagined Productivity Tools | Ivan Zhao
Aug 04, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 254
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Episode description
Ivan Zhao joins Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit to break down how the company’s minimalist design became a strategic edge in a world overwhelmed by bloated software.
He shares why the AI agent still hasn’t arrived, and how Notion’s modular approach might be the closest thing to making it real.
Guest: Ivan Zhao, co-founder and CEO of Notion
Mentioned in this episode: Fuzzy Khosrowshahi, Airbnb, Sequoia Capital, Linear, Figma, Apple, Things, Microsoft, BMW, Lumiere, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Rippling, Matt MacInnis, Inkling, Steve Jobs, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Bill Gates, OpenAI ChatGPT, Y Combinator, Andrej Karpathy, Toby Schachman, Simon Last, Spotify, Slack
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