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Nov 2024
21m 37s

How Notion Became A $10 Billion Company

Entrepreneur.com
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Notion is changing the way people communicate and collaborate. Cofounder and CEO Ivan Zhao has an unusual philosophy about how to do it — which anyone can follow.

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