Notion Podcast

First Block: Interview with Gabe Pereyra, Co-Founder and President of Harvey

First Block: Interview with Gerry Giacomán Colyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Clara

First Block: Interview with Garrett Lord, Co-Founder and CEO of Handshake

In this episode of First Block, Garrett Lord, the co-founder and CEO of Handshake, shares his founding story and the journey of building his company. He discusses the initial struggles, including living out of a car while trying to sign up universities, and the resilience required to overcome the fear of failure. Garre...

First Block: Interview with Jesse Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO of Decagon

First Block: Interview with Ant Wilson, Co-Founder and CTO of Supabase

First Block: Interview with Fabian Hedin, Co-Founder and CTO of Lovable

First Block: Interview with Brendan Foody, Co-Founder & CEO of Mercor

In this episode of First Block, Brendan Foody, co-founder and CEO of Mercor, shares his entrepreneurial journey, from selling donuts in middle school to building a successful software company for recruiting. He emphasizes the importance of solving a problem one is obsessed with, maintaining high standards when hiring t...

First Block: Interview with Varun Anand, Co-Founder of Clay

First Block: Interview with Michael Truell, Co-Founder & CEO of Cursor

In this episode of the "First Walk" podcast, Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of AnySphere, discusses the journey of building Cursor, an AI-powered code editor. Truell shares the initial idea behind Cursor, the early challenges, including a false start in mechanical engineering due to founder-market misfit and data l...

First Block: Interview with Ivan Zhao and Simon Last, Co-Founders of Notion

This podcast episode features a conversation with the co-founders of Notion, Ivan Zhao, Simon Last, and Akshay Kothari. The co-founders discuss their early collaboration, the challenges they faced, and the evolution of Notion into a productivity software. They emphasize their dedication to creating a better productivit...

First Block: Interview with Adeyemi Ajao, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners

First Block: Interview with Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and CEO of Webflow

This podcast episode chronicles the remarkable journey of Vlad Magdalin, co-founder and CEO of Webflow, from refugee to entrepreneur, highlighting the resilience and determination that propelled him to build a robust platform for web design. It delves into the importance of teamwork, the challenges of balancing family ...

First Block: Interview with Daniela Amodei, Co-founder of Anthropic

First Block: Interview with Mathilde Collin, Co-Founder & CEO of Front

First Block: Interview with Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder & CEO of Vanta

First Block: Interview with Julianna Lamb, Co-Founder & CTO of Stytch

First Block: Interview with Parker Conrad, Co-Founder & CEO of Rippling

Pioneers: Michael Nielsen

Pioneers: Andy Matuschak on physically-informed digital interface design

Pioneers: Char Stiles explores tools for expression and experience