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How Notion Built a Product Without a Category
Notion is one of the most beloved productivity tools of the last decade, but it didn't start out that way. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the company's journey from a failed attempt at building an all-in-one workspace to a viral product that redefined how knowledge workers organize their lives. They focus on the pivotal moment in 2018 when Notion abandoned its original vision, slashed its feature set, and rebuilt around a single insight: give users a blank canvas, not a template. With funding from a single angel investor and a waitlist that grew to 100,000 users, Notion…
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