Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
Founder @NotionHQ. LEGO for software. Tools for thought. https://ivanhzhao.notion.site
Notion AI is getting really good internally. And the roadmap is so cool. The next year is gonna be awesome.
The work is mysterious and important. Now, it's also structured. 🌐 Notion.com/severance
Discovered a typeface today: Iowan Old Style - a beautiful serif designed by John Downer in 1991.
Your outie needs organization. Your innie craves structure. Both deserve Notion → notion.com/severance
To designers who want to start a company: you already know how. Same system thinking and tradeoff making with pixels and UX, then add capital and people. You got this!
"In some sense, starting a business, solving a design problem or solving a technical problem are no different. You are all making trade-offs." Here’s a highlight from our fireside chat with @designerfund during Config 2025 💭
Kris is not only the tallest investor you will meet but also the one with biggest heart. I am looking forward to see the companies that he will help build!
Some news - I raised $175M for Verified Capital with a plan to back transformative technology companies at any stage of their journey. Thanks to @_IainMartin for the writeup in Forbes. forbes.com/sites/iainmart…
If all goes well, we are talking about weeks.
cool, but how about offline mode ETA? 😇
Some people say founder mode @NotionCalendar is modern art
I generally wouldn't post about stuff like this but YC reach is genuinely insane. we had to switch to our personal calendars because we hit calendar rate limits on our google business accounts
MCP is good for users. Official @NotionHQ MCP (v2), supported by your Claude with one click.
We've published a directory of apps and tools that connect to Claude with one click. Browse and connect Claude to @canva, @figma, @linear, @NotionHQ, @stripe, and more.
Some time in the past week, I crossed the AI threshold. Rarely am I doing any work without AI at this point. I spend more time going back and forth with AI (mix of Notion and ChatGPT) on tasks than directly creating the final output. Here are examples and what changed... I…
I just joined @NotionHQ as a PM! I’ve always enjoyed building tools for creative expression. Notion is the rare company that believes beautiful tools are required to make beautiful work (and that designing the tool is part of the job). I will be thinking about new interfaces…
No spoilers but I'll just say @NotionHQ is working on literally every feature I've requested over the past three years. Make with Notion 2025 is going to be 🔥🔥🔥.
Welcome to Founder Fridays — a new video series from Notion. We’re sitting down with builders to talk shop: product, design, and the lessons you only learn by doing. Ep 1 features @cron founder @raphaelschaad and Notion PMM @OwaisK16. From Chrome extension → beloved calendar…
rumor has it we have a testflight link ready for our ios app 👀 who wants in?