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What made Notion a $20 Billion Startup? So Notion was started by Ivan Zhao in 2013 as a tool that helped people create their own websites without writing codes. However, Ivan realized that people didn't want to build websites; they wanted to do the

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Havish Gupta

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Yup. And hear this out. So in 2015, they were almost bankrupt. They had to fire many employees and shift to cheaper offices. Then ivan took a 150,000$ loan from his mother and the company was saved from bankruptcy

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