woke up and choosing violence

probably I should do a last man standing poker tournament and hire the winner lol 😂

We're finally shedding the .so (thank you Somalia!), and using the .com for @NotionHQ. And for this beautiful moment, I want to share a fun story: Back in 2018, I had just joined Notion, and one of the first things @ivan asked me to do was figure out how we could own notion.com. I had never done a big domain purchase before, so I reached out to a few domain brokers to understand the landscape. We tried different brokers, kept things anonymous, and attempted to surface a price the seller might consider. A year went by… nothing. Meanwhile, it was pretty clear this was only going to get more expensive as we grew. We needed a different approach. A fellow founder connected me to a broker who took a very different tack. Less transactional, more long-term relationship builder. He spent months getting to know the domain owner. Turns out owner was a fellow entrepreneur in the west coast… and a huge Grateful Dead fan. So we figured, why not get creative? Something beyond just price. So I called up our investor Ronny Conway and asked if there was any way he could help set up a private meeting between the domain owner and the Grateful Dead. Ronny is one of those people who somehow makes impossible things possible. A week later he calls me back: “New York City. Halloween. 15 minutes after the concert. Done.” The broker went back to the owner with an offer: some cash, some equity, and a private meeting with the Grateful Dead. That got his attention. He didn’t take the band meeting in the end, but he did lean into the equity (great call, in hindsight). We shook hands, and a few weeks later, the deal was done. I’ve been waiting years for the day we move our product to notion.com. Looks like 2026 is finally the year. Safe to say I’m unreasonably excited about this update!

Introducing HydraDB. The graph native context infrastructure for agents. Purpose built to deliver precise context & observability into why agents act the way they do. We've always believed graphs are the best way to manage AI context, but they've been too expensive to scale or impractical for storing full context. Until now. @hydra_db combines in memory, NVMe, and object storage into a single graph layer, making context delivery faster, cheaper, and more precise. We want context delivery to be extremely fast, 1000x cheap, and highly precise. Give your agents a brain.

Attended Mumbai Tech Week as a @Replit Ambassador last week. Thanks @Adilsyed23 for the invite! Also got to meet one of my favorite founders, Manoj Meena (Atomberg), and so many other lovely friends.

Yep. Claude Opus 4.8 is now in Notion 🫡

After spending two weeks in the US meeting managers, this feels more true than ever...

"For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Indeed, you might even gain the deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered." - Jim Collins

BIG one for devs today. Introducing the Notion Developer Platform: - Notion CLI, ntn (Notion in your terminal) - Workers (run code on Notion's infra) - Database sync (any data source into Notion) - Agent tools (build any workflow) - Webhook triggers (trigger Notion from any app) - External Agents API (bring any agent into Notion) - Notion Agents SDK (use Notion Agents anywhere) - …and a bunch more API improvements And soon, you won't need to be a developer to build on Notion. Your agent will be one for you.

this is insane

Replit, turned 10 🎂 To celebrate we’re making it totally free for 24 hours starting at 5am PT. But our work—to make coding accessible for all—goes back to 2011. Watch the highlights from the journey: It’s been an honor to help millions learn & ship. Here is to the next 10!

Ready to have some fun building this weekend?

God.. I was such a total cliche VC back then. Buzzwords and half-assed things. Totally realized it scrolling through my old WA messages. Feeling like punching myself in the face for that version of me. Big apologies to all the founders who interacted with me in 2021-2024.

India is already the #2 market for @ChatGPTapp @AnthropicAI @ElevenLabs @WisprFlow It’s also one of the largest contributor bases on GitHub including meaningful contributions to AI open source. We have users. We have builders. The bottleneck is cost. Token economics still don’t work for India-scale use cases. We have seen this movie before with mobile data, digital payments. Costs fall -> usage explodes. AI costs are falling faster than data ever did. When inference becomes cheap enough, AI applications in India will explode.

claude new session limits are a joke

was searching for “best ACs in India” auto corrected to “best VCs in India” both are hot, one just burns more money