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Ivan Zhao

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Ivan Zhao

@ivanhzhao

CEO @NotionHQ. Tools for thought.

New York, NY

ivanhzhao.notion.site

Joined November 2008

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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Mar 30
The loudest story about AI is a lonely one. One person with an army of chatbots. Other humans are friction. That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone. In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for: — Think Together
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Jul 22, 2024
Last week, @NotionHQ passed 100M users! I found the photo I took after we reached 1000 users. And I still recall the day when we passed 1M in 2020 right before covid. I feel grateful, introspective. Looking back, there's so much learning, yet much remains unchanged... 1/n
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Aug 19, 2025
So for 5 years, “offline” has been the #1 request. Today, thanks to the perseverance of our engineering team, @NotionHQ finally works offline. Your ideas don’t need Wi‑Fi to exist! For Notion community: thank you for your patience while we built this right. This is a journey,
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Feb 9, 2025
Found a wife who reads Hegel to you on weekends.
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Aug 15, 2024
. @NotionHQ is designed by ~12 people. It’s kinda painful (high load, each person has to wear many hats…) But we want to keep the talent density high, because we believe the product quality starts with the quality of the people behind it. Now with @randyjhunt recently joining,
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Jan 31, 2025
At the end of each quarter, @NotionHQ designers lift cars. DM open if you are a designer who can code and lift cars.
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Oct 8, 2021
Gm! Today @NotionHQ is announcing $275M in new funding led by Coatue & @sequoia, with participation from @Base10Partners @ShineCapitalNYC You can read details here: forbes.com/sites/alexkonr… But in this thread, I want to bring it back to why we're here & where we're headed. 1/7
Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Nov 2, 2024
Why do Americans always vote on Tuesdays? Because 1800s citizens needed a full day's horseback ride to reach polling sites after Sunday church. Pretty amazing that this democracy runs on horse-and-buggy software in the age of the Internet and AI!
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Feb 24, 2023
For 2023, we really want to get back to our roots of quality and craft, by fixing paper cuts like this. @NotionHQ should stand for “high quality, useful software — for the many people”
Notion
@NotionHQ
Feb 24, 2023
A li’l quality-of-life update: Before, you had to be really precise with your cursor so menus wouldn’t disappear on you. Should feel much more polished now 🫡
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Oct 18, 2025
“Hourly wage” didn’t exist before the 1800s, because most people didn’t have a clock to measure it. Railroads created the pressure to standardize time (to avoid crashes.) That brought us clocks. Then we had hourly wages.
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Aug 5, 2025
Last month, an 18-year-old joined @NotionHQ AI team. Last week, a 16-year-old! The next gen isn't waiting for permission to shape AI — they're already building it!
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Sep 18, 2025
Notion 3.0 with Agents is out today! It's the first Knowledge Work Agent in the world. It works with Notion databases. It can do multi-step actions and autonomous work up to 20+ mins, and a brand-new memory system (using Notion pages and databases! 👌) With 3.0, Notion isn’t
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Jan 7, 2025
A fun (non-AI) release to start the year! For the longest time, the only way to get a Notion "face" was to work at Notion and get one hand-drawn by our genius illustrator Roman (and later Iris and co.) It's a lot of work and we have a queue even for our new teammates. So we
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Notion
@NotionHQ
Jan 7, 2025
Your workspace should reflect who you are ✨ Meet Notion Faces: Bring your best ideas, boldest resolutions, and now a custom self-portrait to life in Notion with over 500 hand-drawn features. Create and share yours → notion.com/faces
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Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Jul 15, 2025
Introducing: Notion MCP Server (hosted, v2) We worked with the @cursor_ai team to rebuild our MCP from the ground up: - 1-click OAuth install for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor... - inventing a Notion-flavored Markdown that combines the power of Notion blocks with the compactness
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