Varadh Jain

context @notionhq ∙ prev founder ∙ probably petting your dog

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

Thrilled to join @NotionHQ!

It’s an exciting moment to be building tools for the future for everyone. I’ve used Notion for over a decade and admired what this team has built for a long time, so this one was an easy decision.

Really grateful (and very excited) to be here. Let’s go 🧱

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@frank_ @brexton hell yes fam! i’m sufficiently solar pilled, here’s me with some of my babies

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

UBT™ - universal basic tokens

A long held belief of mine is we’re going to get UBT before UBI for the population. If you squint, you could argue it’s already here but just at a much lower floor.

To enable it we’re going to need to build so much more

[brexton @brexton]

We're entering a new era where value accrues to physical assets and supply chains/infrastructure are national security imperatives

There will be infinite demand for intelligence and we're rate limited by physics & compute

Lots of opportunities for startups. Bullish on builders

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@sonofalli @NotionHQ !!

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@frank_ @brexton yes king

today subsidized by ant but in the future it’ll be a benefit of living in the us of a

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@brexton yes king

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

Sick! @XMoney

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

The work we’re doing will help agents access context located anywhere else inside your company, irrespective of whether the agent is inside @NotionHQ or external

To that end, the Notion Search MCP is 🚀. Agents are happiest if they know how to orient themselves.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

Imagine replacing 90% of your employees with a team of geniuses who have no idea how your company operates.

Total chaos. Nothing works.

That’s what AI feels like today.

The missing piece is extracting all the domain knowledge from people’s heads and providing that as structured context to the models.

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@andrewqu @frank_ feedback is a gift

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@andymstone @jjacky This is not true Andy

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@big_algocracy every week another model phil

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@david_rosenberg @geoffreylitt @ivanhzhao @goldmanem @_clem @NotionDevs how many can you eat in a day dr?

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@Blobifie happy birthday! may the year be unexpected and delightful

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@catboosted jared will start another co dw

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@hrlomax @zachtratar #notionai

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

20: i'd like to be in this meeting
25: i'll attend this meeting
30: i think i am going to skip this meeting!

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@delk @JebBush Beautiful stuff! Can’t wait till my kids one day go to a primer school :)

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@andrew__reed wait this is a really calm voice i'd listen to future podcasts in hindi @jacksondahl

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@rronak_ @trajectorylabs hell yes

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

@html5cat @NotionHQ you're in the building