Akshay Kothari

My daughter made this for my 40th. It's so sweet, and accurate!

@tominerd better late than never!

THEY COULD HAVE DONE THIS 109 YEARS AGO

"Yet there was one guy who stood out in the right way. He looked excellent. He was a founder whose outfit was actually worth emulating." nytimes.com/2026/07/14/sty…

@samlambert @nikitabier +100

You can now open markdown files in @NotionHQ. h/t to my bro @nikunj for suggesting this a few weeks ago.

What if software could mold itself to every user? This is what we explored with @geoffreylitt in our latest podcast episode! 🎙️ Geoffrey is a Design Engineer at @NotionHQ. He works at the intersection of design, code, and AI. He's deeply passionate about malleable software: tools that give users the power to reshape software to their needs. This was a very fascinating chat, here are a few things I learned: 🔧 Malleable software is about layers — great tools should feel opinionated out of the box, but let you dig deeper and customize more as you grow. The best software "surreptitiously pulls the user into modifying it." 🤖 Agents thrive on horizontal context — the more context an agent can access across your workspace, the more useful it becomes. Siloed agents with narrow access just can't compete. 🔍 Version control is the key to agent trust — coding agents work because GitHub exists. For AI agents to earn broader scope, we need the same undo, diff, and review controls everywhere. 🎨 Design and code are a feedback loop — prototyping in code beats static mockups because you discover conceptual model flaws early. Coding agents now make it cheap to blow up the foundation and start over. ⚡ Ship to prod to test — at Notion, design engineers ship experimental flows to production behind feature flags in a day or two, getting real user feedback instead of guessing from mockups. Where to watch: • Substack: refactoring.fm/p/the-rise-of-… • Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=XS56wf… • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2UGTjV…

@saammotamedi Huge congrats!

Today, we are announcing Greylock 18, a new $1.5 billion early-stage venture fund. A company begins when a founder sees a future others cannot yet see. There is no team, product, or revenue. Only a deep insight and the courage to start. Being early is lonely work. For years, being right can look exactly like being wrong. Greylock has spent more than six decades partnering with founders through those earliest moments to build enduring companies. Airbnb, Facebook, and Palo Alto Networks all began as improbable ideas driven by founders determined to make them inevitable. AI has made the map blank again. Every part of the economy is now open to reinvention. We believe many of the defining AI companies do not yet exist. We invest selectively and partner deeply with the founders we back. Each Greylock partner makes only one or two new investments a year because the work demands depth. We bring the full attention, network, and resources of Greylock to every partnership. We are builders backing outliers. Founders have their choice of investor. When a founder chooses to partner with Greylock, we understand the weight of that choice and the profound responsibility that comes with it. We seek to be a founder’s first believer and long-term partner. Greylock 18 is our commitment to what does not exist yet.

@packyM Ditto!

@lulumeservey So surprising that this happened! Brian is one of the greatest storytellers.

CEOs damage trust when they post unfiltered claudeslop It signals low care, absence of craftsmanship, unclear provenance of ideas As Claude says, via Brian: “The hard part was never the technology. It’s trust.” It’s harder to earn trust when your words aren’t really yours

@sama it's very good! congrats to the team.

GPT-5.6 sol is half the price and ~twice as token efficient as fable in many cases for accomplishing the same task. happy to deliver at one-quarter of the price.

@deedydas Same as Replit? We had a product/business before AI, but vast majority of it at this point is because of AI.

@deedydas you're missing one :)

Every single AI startup with $500M+ revenue run rate (excluding the big 3 labs): Lovable - $500M ElevenLabs - $500M Perplexity - $500M Manus - $500M* Cognition - $500M* Kling AI - $500M Crusoe - $500M* Midjourney - $500M* Higgsfield - $500M Lightning AI - $500M+ Replit - $525M* Baseten - $600M* Lambda - $760M* Fireworks - $800M* Together AI - $1B Surge AI - $1.4B* Scale - $2B* Mercor - $2B** Cursor - $4B 22 total companies (including big labs) *estimated / unconfirmed **gross marketplace volume, not net revenue

@ryolu_ Wow!

built a custom e-reader firmware with Cursor, hardware hacking is fun! made for: – beautiful latin + CJK typography – vertical layout, line breaking, large character sets (縱書．禁則) – syncs books + progress with ryOS – speedy rendering + caching

@johnsontrades_ Thanks for flagging! cc @MarissaJFelix

😂😂😂

@0interestrates 😂😂😂

another banger from naval

Community roundtable with @NotionHQ Japan Ambassadors. We asked everyone about their favorite recent launch. 7 of 12 picked HTML blocks!

"When Alan Kay was working on the original personal computer an idea that he thought was very important, was [his] goal wasn’t to automate a bunch of work. The goal was to change how people think." "The old medium of what our world was built on was writing and pieces of paper. The new medium is simulation because we can simulate any world now. And that’s a very powerful medium for people to gain mastery over to understand how the world works." @geoffreylitt and @mschoening on Small Talk Ep 3

Every time I come to Japan, the team has grown and moved into a bigger office. Six years ago, I hired @katsu2488 over Zoom in the middle of Covid. Today, we’re more than 100+ people, serving everyone from individuals and startups to scale-ups and large enterprises. The growth has been extraordinary, but what impresses me most is how Japan is leading the way in how we build with customers and go to market together. 🇯🇵

my Notion writes and maintains itself 😎 revealing this now that @NotionHQ agents are on mobile. - a mini-tasklist - a mini-CRM - a mini-read log - and my mini-brain! i haven't typed a thing into it all week. Claude + minimi (projectminimi.com) keep all of it current while I just move on with my life. see it in action below 👇