Founder Festival: Ivan Zhao's Profile

Welcome, Ivan Zhao

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Founder248

96th percentile

Investor0

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#51 on Leaderboard

Co-founder and CEO of Notion, the $10B cash-flow-positive productivity unicorn

• Professional:First-Time Founder Unicorn Founder Raised $200M+1,000+ Employees

Credibility

this founder typical founder (50th pct)

Operator · 98th percentile

Current founder and CEO of Notion, actively running the company he co-founded in 2016.
Named Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur of 2024, a notable feature profile in a tier-1 outlet recognizing his founder leadership.
Conference talk and interview 'Notion's Cofounders' has 1,558,655 YouTube views — strong thought-leadership reach.
Notion was co-founded with Simon Last (CTO), confirming co-founders.
Wikidata entity Q122903588 exists for Ivan Zhao, confirming public notability as founder of Notion.
Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Ivan Zhao as founder of Notion.

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Founder score

99%Current founder and CEO of Notion, actively running the company he co-founded in 2016.
97%Notion was co-founded with Simon Last (CTO), confirming co-founders.
95%notion.so ranks #727 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
95%31,231 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
92%Notion last raised at a ~$10B valuation, making Ivan Zhao a unicorn founder.
92%Notion has raised $337M in total venture funding across 9 rounds.
90%Named Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur of 2024, a notable feature profile in a tier-1 outlet recognizing his founder leadership.
90%Wikidata entity Q122903588 exists for Ivan Zhao, confirming public notability as founder of Notion.
88%Notion is cash flow positive, as publicly stated by Ivan Zhao in a LinkedIn post closing Q1.
85%Conference talk and interview 'Notion's Cofounders' has 1,558,655 YouTube views — strong thought-leadership reach.
80%Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Ivan Zhao as founder of Notion.
55%Identified GitHub account @Ivan-Zhao linked to Ivan Zhao.
55%GitHub account @Ivan-Zhao has been active for ~9 years (created 2016).
40%Identified Stack Overflow account for Ivan Zhao.

What you likely need

As the co-founder and CEO of Notion — a $10B productivity unicorn with accelerating revenue and a cash-flow-positive business — you're at the stage where peer-level founder relationships, strategic hiring, and positioning for the AI-first era matter most. Events that connect you with other late-stage founders navigating the SaaS-to-AI transition, top engineering talent, and enterprise go-to-market leaders would be highest-leverage right now.

Would you attend these IRL Festival events?

We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.

tacticalA closed roundtable dinner for unicorn-stage CEOs navigating the SaaS-to-AI product transition, to share playbooks on AI monetization and org redesign.
introsA Sequoia portfolio founder dinner to exchange notes on scaling AI-native product teams and enterprise go-to-market with other top-tier-backed founders.
hiringA workshop on hiring 'blurred-role' engineers and designers in the AI era, connecting Notion's talent bar with other founders building AI-first teams.
positioningAn enterprise GTM roundtable with other $500M+ ARR founders on embedding storytelling into product orgs and decentralizing the CMO function.
introsA Gold House A100 networking dinner to build relationships with other top Asian-American founders and operators in tech.
tacticalA happy hour with founders who have successfully launched developer platforms, to share lessons on ecosystem growth and third-party integrations.
wellbeingA small founder wellbeing retreat for long-tenured CEOs (10+ years building the same company) to reflect on sustaining energy through multiple reinventions.