Samantha Price

Founding Partner @AudaciousHQ | helping founders hire 🫶

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

Launching: Hiring Office Hours! 🔥

If you're a seed stage founder hiring and need some help, book time with me so I can share all my sneaky brilliant tips on how to hire an amazing founding team!

4/3 from 10am to 1pm!

Book here: https://t.co/Y3Z2YQFBok

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

@hiiinternet Is that the subway city game?

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

When people tell you they are sick right before a big meeting but don't reschedule, do you automatically think they are trying to lower your expectations of them?

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@talentwithcath You're obsessed.

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

My X feed is just jammed with posts from the same people. Over and over again. What can I do to get a variety of different posts in my feed? Any advice?

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

Take me back to 1965!

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Beautifully done. Evolution of women’s fashions.

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@HightailTom @HarryStebbings @nico_laqua Times are different, Tom!

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

I love working with @wgenesen and our founders on their GTM strategies! Always fun to have him in the room with us when we're brainstorming!

[Will Genesen @wgenesen]

Most seed founders think they have a channel problem. It's almost always a messaging problem.

Wrote up my playbook based on time at Ramp and OneSchema:

https://t.co/o8Z3zoKhwg

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

I am in a spell of serious AI training fatigue! That last 10% is everything!

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

@_WEEXIAO @Jackyhuang @lucasquan @hardlaunching Fun!!!!

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

This 👇!! I’ve always said this to the founders I work with. For so many years all the advice out there was to ignore your instincts. When you know you know.

[Nakul Mandan @nakul]

What's a red flag @AshwinSreenivas from @DecagonAI no longer ignores in recruiting?

[Nakul Mandan @nakul]

"We were go-karting and doing quite well. Now we've moved to Formula 1, and we're in the middle of the pack. We have a shot at the podium but we have to rewire for the race we're in."

Akshay Kothari (@akothari). Cofounder and COO of @NotionHQ.

Three years from now, most pre-AI companies will be gone. Notion will be one of the few standing stronger than before. This episode is a field study in how they're pulling it off.

Knuckle Up ↓

00:00 Intro
01:27 What were Notion's core founding principles?
06:20 Which early cultural principles scaled, and which broke?
08:22 How did Notion hire its first employees, and where did they come from?
11:48 How does hiring work now that the founders can't meet everyone?
14:35 Why does Akshay, as COO, prefer to have zero direct reports?
19:05 How do Ivan, Simon, and Akshay divide the work?
21:07 Does Notion's intentionality ever conflict with speed?
25:25 What should other founders steal from Notion's culture?
28:11 When did AI become a reason to rethink the whole product?
30:44 Why were the early AI years a "swamp of despair"?
36:05 How do you push AI across a huge product without losing the user?
39:25 Does Notion buy its AI DNA or build it?
40:44 Should Notion be afraid of OpenAI, Anthropic, and fast copycats?
46:58 What's hardest about the reinvention, and what does "meet the LLM" mean?
52:42 Is Notion AI-native in every function yet?
54:36 Are Notion's engineers still writing code, and how has engineering changed?
1:01:07 Once building is cheap, what's the new bottleneck?
1:02:39 How is AI reshaping sales, marketing, and support?
1:09:07 How many agents run inside Notion, and who builds them?
1:11:28 How has recruiting changed for the AI era?
1:13:48 What still worries Akshay about Notion's future?
1:15:22 Quickfire: admired founders, books, overrated AI advice, and Akshay’s superpower
1:19:42 What should a $50M pre-AI company do in the next 90 days?

[Nakul Mandan @nakul]

What's a red flag @AshwinSreenivas from @DecagonAI no longer ignores in recruiting?

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

@nvonbodungen @yousufdoes you guys should hang!

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

@nvonbodungen Congrats!!!!

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@ItzSuds Do something fun! I think it would be good!!

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@reblavoie Maybe it’s the rain on the plants??

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

@adelwu_ What city are you in?

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

For those traveling in Italy and missing your iced lattes I’ve discovered the solution!

Caffè Leccese = espresso over ice with sweet almond syrup.

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

After 2 weeks in Italy I had to give in and order an iced latte. Sue me, okay!

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

After 2 weeks in Italy I had to give in and order an iced latte. Sue me, okay!