High Signal Podcasts Evidence ledger
Method
Browse
← Back to evidence

Evidence receipt / commitment

Published · transcript-backed

Camille Ricketts: commitment

11 Dec 2022 Lenny's Podcast How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts (Notion, First Round Capital)

“The last point I'll make about community at Notion is that a lot of those people, and we actually ended up launching I think a channel for folks who wanted to do this in particular, but run communities external to Notion's actual owned communities.”

— Camille Ricketts

Source trail

Everything needed to verify it.

Speaker
Camille Ricketts
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
commitment
Recorded
11 Dec 2022
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

Transcript context

…I've seen the same thing with the growth rate being really important with my newsletter Slack community. I think most listeners probably know this, but if you're a paid newsletter subscriber, you get access to the Slack community. There's about 10,000 people in there. And I find the filter of people that are willing to pay for content like a newsletter is a really good filter for awesome people. And so it ends up slowing growth in a really healthy way and then just creating this filter of the people that really want to self-improve and value the sort of thing join, and it becomes a really amazing group of people. Yeah. It feels like such a ... I don't know. There's an emotional quality to it I think when that's the case. And all of those people end up being so incredibly impactful. The last point I'll make about community at Notion is that a lot of those people, and we actually ended up launching I think a channel for folks who wanted to do this in particular, but run communities external to Notion's actual owned communities. So you end up with Facebook groups that have ... I think Notion in Vietnam has like 250,000 members. Or the subreddit, which I now know has 210,000 people in the Notion subreddit. And those are all run and moderated by community members who just love running their own communities. I feel like you've achieved your OKRs of ubiquity of Notion.…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.

Search evidence