The story
The first version was failing and the money was nearly gone, so they let the team go and moved to Kyoto. They rewrote the product from scratch there, and the relaunch found a following that spread by word of mouth.
No. 038 · 2013 · San Francisco
Notion
Fired everyone. Moved to Kyoto. Rewrote the whole thing.
Everyone's second brain
Make my startup a legend- 1 Two founders, chasing computer pioneers' dreams.
- 2 Version one is a disaster. Money nearly gone.
- 3 2015. They lay off everyone.
- 4 They move to Kyoto.
- 5 Hoodies, tatami, rewrite.
- 6 Notion relaunches.
- 7 People build whole lives in it.
- 8 All from a very quiet year in Kyoto.
- Founders
- Ivan Zhao and Simon Last
- Founded
- 2013, San Francisco
- What they do
- One workspace for notes, docs and projects.