#581 Akshay Kothari | COO Notion
Our guest today grew up in India, the middle of three brothers who all came to the US to study. He describes his life as a series of plans that did not work out, and of turns that ended up better than any plan precisely because of that.
Instead of one of his dream universities he went to Purdue, instead of investment banking he joined a family office in Silicon Valley, and when his work visa did not come through in 2008, he started at Stanford, in the very week Lehman Brothers collapsed. A class that required students to ship...