Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion, where he leads the company’s long-running mission to make software toolmaking ubiquitous. A product- and design-centric founder, Zhao helped build Notion from an early “LEGO for software” vision into a widely used AI workspace for docs, wikis, projects, databases, search, and agents. Before Notion, he worked in product at Inkling and studied cognitive science and fine arts at the University of British Columbia.
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Ivan combines product craft, design sensibility, and a long-term philosophy around malleable software—an unusually strong fit for Notion’s horizontal workspace platform. His background across cognitive science, fine arts, and product work supports Notion’s emphasis on flexible tools, elegant interfaces, and augmenting how teams think and work.