Akshay Kothari is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Notion, where he helps lead product and company strategy for the AI workspace used by teams and individuals worldwide. He joined Notion in 2018 after nearly six years at LinkedIn, where he led product and international initiatives, including LinkedIn India. Earlier, Akshay co-founded Pulse, the mobile news-reader app started while he was a Stanford graduate student and acquired by LinkedIn in 2013. He holds electrical engineering degrees from Purdue University and Stanford University and is also an active angel investor in AI, SaaS, developer tools, HR, data, and productivity startups.
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- HR techHumaansHR software platform for employee onboarding, employee data, people operations, finance, and IT workflows.
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Akshay combines deep product-building experience, founder empathy, and operating scale: he built Pulse from a Stanford project into a major consumer app acquired by LinkedIn, then helped scale LinkedIn products before joining Notion early and shaping it into a category-defining AI workspace. That background fits Notion’s market at the intersection of product-led growth, knowledge work, collaboration, AI, and enterprise SaaS.