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<aside> 🗣 TL;DR: I want to work at Notion this summer as an intern. Role isn't too important.

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Hi all,

I'm Rishi and I'm graduating from Duke in May. I've been a Notion user since June 2018. I'm also a Notion Scholar. Notion has fundamentally changed how I work, and I admire its blend of elegance and power tremendously.

A little about me: I have experience working in product (Google APM- worked on Pixel launch), software (rigorous CS and ECE classes, Cisco), and have effected impact through strong communities as a leader on campus (President of Engineering Student Government).

More on me here ➡️:

Rishi Tripathy

This page is a little overview of what I'm looking for and how it might align with each of your goals. The opportunity to work on building an incredible tool like Notion this summer is so, so unique. Let me know what the next part of the conversation might look like; happy to provide any additional info you'd need to make a decision! Feel free to comment directly on here or follow up through email. Happy Friday!

Best, Rishi

Three things I love about Notion:

• Warmth.
• Slim's tweets.
• First principles thinking, general ambition.

Three things I hope Notion will love about me:

• Affinity for wearing multiple hats in pursuit of a shared goal.
• Bias for intentional action.
• Passionate, coachable, and ready-to-learn.

For Cristina

API & Integrations

This has been something that I've been personally excited about for almost a year now.

Top Experiences:

• Managing custom Notion workspace for semester-long technical project for engineering team of 4
  • Also drew Notion adoption from 75% of other groups
• Serving as Duke's first Notion Scholar and brainstorming API use cases with students
• Created launch plan for next-gen Pixel phone as part of APM internship
  • Won award for my work educating support staff
  • Positioning w/marketing, consumer/retail messaging, software roadmap planning
  • Work with partnerships team to identify and plan top opportunities
• Community-building expertise
  • Teaching class on PM @ Duke
  • Worked with administrative, academic and student stakeholders to advance academic policy and institutional strategy forward for 1300+ engineering undergrads

Long form blurb I also shared with Michael:

Over the course of the past year, I've worked on two medium-length (semester-long) projects where my primary responsibility was API design and implementation. I'm still learning, but elegance and abstraction come more and more naturally to me every day. As a PM and campus leader, I have lots of experience documenting and communicating across diverse sets of stakeholders and recognizing my audience.

In addition to helping build and test API, I'm looking forward to the timeframe of this summer especially because it's likely to be the point at which the developer ecosystem for Notion blows up- at which point integrations will become even more critical to manage- hopefully an extra two eyes and ten fingers couldn't hurt!

The prospect of working with partners within and outside of Notion to create seamless and performant experiences and integrations for users is inspiring.

For Akshay

Two things you said stuck out to me from our conversation this past August:

1. 'Do what feels right.'
2. You said while you had lots of support at LinkedIn, your 'spirit was fulfilled' at Pulse.

I'm incredibly privileged to have optionality in making career choices. I've given a lot of thought to what I want to learn and the type of work I want to be doing.

Notion feels right.

Given your product background and operational role, the functions in your domain where I feel I could add the most value are as follows:

(Hybrid role adapted from above listing)

Working between Growth Eng and Customer Success to:

• identify and execute on (literally build) features or analytical tools to drive adoption and delight
• help define and prioritize roadmap items

(Hybrid role adapted from above listing)

Working between Engineering and Recruiting to:

• Sit in on an engineering team daily, understand those work processes
• Work with leadership and recruiting team to identify, and close talent that fits team needs

For Michael

I hope your first two weeks have been fulfilling! It's hard to imagine what a transition like yours must feel like- would love to hear more sometime.

Though my most recent work has been in product management, I'm an engineer by heart, and my love for building grows daily. I'm excited by the prospect of Notion not having dedicated PMs and having product decisions driven by engineers.

Looking at roadmap items on the current features list, here's how I think I can add value:

API & Integrations

This has been something that I've been personally excited about for almost a year now. Over the course of the past year, I've worked on two medium-length (semester-long) projects where my primary responsibility was API design and implementation. I'm still learning, but elegance and abstraction come more and more naturally to me every day.

In addition to actually building parts of the API, I'm looking forward to the timeframe of this summer especially because it's likely to be the point at which the developer ecosystem for Notion blows up- at which point integrations will become even more critical to manage- hopefully an extra two eyes and ten fingers on the codebase couldn't hurt!

The prospect of working with engineers within and outside of Notion to create seamless and performant experiences and integrations for users is inspiring.

Full-stack, Backend, Mobile, anything works (though my Swift is a little rusty). I want to dive into the challenges that come when building for developers, users, and ourselves simultaneously.

Thanks so much for taking the time to read! Hope to hear from you soon.