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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LinkedinIvan Zhao - The University of British Columbia - San Francisco, California, United States | LinkedInEducation: The University of British Columbia · Location: San Francisco · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Ivan Zhao’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
theorghqNotion | The OrgNotion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion, they're all in one place, and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow. It's the all-in-one workspace for you, your team, and your whole company. We humans are toolmakers by nature, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. The team at Notion is on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.
Sequoia CapitalNotion CEO Ivan Zhao: Augmenting Human IntellectNotion’s co-founders are growing an enduring business by nurturing the creative community.
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Lenny’s Podcast / Apple PodcastsNotion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan ZhaoSupports Ivan Zhao as co-founder and CEO and describes Notion’s early product resets and product-market-fit journey.
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.