Akshay Kothari
@akothari
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Co-founder @NotionHQ
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2008
Spotify Wrapped, Granola Crunched.. but what about all your 100k text messages? Introducing iMessage Wrapped 🌯 > runs FULLY locally on your Mac > open source (remix away) > two terminal commands, and that's it > NO message text read wrap2025 dot com Feedback welcome 🙏
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Good stories need tension — without it, there’s no story at all. As a founder, you’re always better off surfacing that tension yourself than letting a journalist go hunting for it. @johncoogan and @DollyDeighton break this down beautifully. And huge thanks to @kellylsims for
WSJ's @DollyDeighton discusses the realities of telling stories about founders and tech, and the media's relationship with the industry. "I think the pendulum swings. Originally, the press were accused of being too friendly to tech, and then we've swung, and everyone's accused
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the internal guide that technically lite team members go through when joining cursor https://t.co/jJKn17f6CU
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We're hosting an AI × Design event next Tuesday at Notion HQ 🥟 — https://t.co/a9Rsvq1XVd We'll have speakers from Notion, Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI to share how they design both with and for AI products. There will be demos. There will be dumplings! Space is limited.
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AI × design demo night, hosted by Notion
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in early '23, claude had just finished training, and we had to find the first customers for anthropic, fast if you look up the first ever Claude launch blog post, it essentially came down to startup founders like @vivianmshen and @akothari evangelizing it, not 'enterprises'
A startup told me that one of their investors didn't like it that they were selling to newly founded startups, and wanted them to sell to bigger companies, who have more money. If investors tell you this, write them off as idiots. Selling to startups is the best thing you can do.
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If @NotionHQ ever made a podcast about the people we admire and the ideas we obsess over, it’d look a lot like @DialecticPod. I wasn't able to hire @JacksonDahl (yet!), so I did the next best thing: invested in him and Dialectic so he can do it full-time. Unreasonably excited!
I'm going full time on @dialecticpod with the support of @notionHQ. A few thoughts on what the future holds, what Dialectic means to me, and why Notion is the perfect presenting partner: A year ago, I started interviewing some of my smart friends without much of a strategy. I
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this is 100% how I feel today. wish I could freeze time!
Wife just sent me this video of early Saturday morning of me and my daughter looking for sea shells. In 30 years I will probably be willing to give up most of my net worth to go back this period of my life. Currently my daughter thinks I’m still cool, and I like that
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Swapped half an hour of sleep for half an hour of daily exercise this year. Feel much healthier.
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Gemini's deep integration with Google products is quite impressive. For example: I was in Italy last week, and tried a simple query (make me a day trip in Florence from the train station) both in ChatGPT and Gemini last week. The actual plan was somewhat similar, but the Google
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Created with Gemini
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in 2026 — agents are software — data is a design tool — chat is the operating system — classical apps are modules in chat
design in the age of AI reaches deeper than UI or product— it shapes data, thinking, and representation. imagine gathering a deliberate slice of humanity’s best thinking on how high-performers work—concrete operators, examples, methods—curated and distilled. turn that into a
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For the past few years, the product we sold was software. Beautiful software that helped you get your work done. In the years ahead, the product we’ll sell is actual knowledge work: repetitive tasks you can fully hand off to @NotionHQ Agents. Here’s a quick demo:
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Generally a good idea to bet on a Kothari brother…
we just raised another $25M after 10x'ing our ARR in 5 months. the crazy part is this almost never happened. 17 years ago, I watched Iron Man as a 10-year-old kid in Delhi. that night, I pulled my first all-nighter teaching myself to code. not because I wanted to build apps or
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Host of @DialecticPod (my favorite podcast discovery this year), in front of a Dilecta cycles poster at @NotionHQ office. Couldn’t be more fitting!
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Thrilled to partner with our friends at @NotionHQ ! Now you can pull in information from your Notion pages to inform generation in Figma Make, leading to more context and better results! So much ahead for Figma Make. Thankful to work with such amazing partners!
So, Figma Make can read your Notion pages now — specs, tasks, notes. And pull them straight into your designs. Context → cleaner mocks, without all the tab-shuffling.
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Gemini 3 Pro is now live in Notion. First time you can use Notion Agent on a Gemini model. It’s great for challenging, multi-step tasks. Let us know how you find it!
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