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See all stacks →Exclusive: Notion Names First Board Of Directors In Key Step Toward IPO
Notion has named its first board of directors after over a decade of operation without one, a key step toward a potential IPO at its $11 billion valuation. The six-member board includes co-founder Ivan Zhao alongside experienced leaders from VMware, DoorDash, Robinhood, Arc Institute, and Sequoia, selected through a deliberate process mapping complementary skills to executive team needs.
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Summary
Notion has named its first board of directors after over a decade of operation without one, a key step toward a potential IPO at its $11 billion valuation. The six-member board includes co-founder Ivan Zhao alongside experienced leaders from VMware, DoorDash, Robinhood, Arc Institute, and Sequoia, selected through a deliberate process mapping complementary skills to executive team needs.
Tags
notion · board-of-directors · ipo · startup-governance · silicon-valley · corporate-leadership · sequoia
Key entities
Notion (organization, 1) · Ivan Zhao (person, 1) · Akshay Kothari (person, 1) · Jonathan Chadwick (person, 0.95) · Christopher Payne (person, 0.95) · Gretchen Howard (person, 0.95) · Patrick Hsu (person, 0.95) · Pat Grady (person, 0.95) · Sequoia (organization, 0.98) · DoorDash (organization, 0.9) · Robinhood (organization, 0.9) · Arc Institute (organization, 0.9) · VMware (organization, 0.85) · Alex Konrad (person, 0.9) · SEC (organization, 0.8) · IPO (concept, 0.98) · Silicon Valley (location, 0.9) · Jeff Weiner (person, 0.8) · LinkedIn (organization, 0.75)
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analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 16 Jun 2026