Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Welcome to Founder Fridays - a Notion founder series - where we sit down with builders who’ve been in the trenches to talk shop - product, design, and the real lessons no one puts on a slide deck.

In this episode, Cron founder Raphael Schaad and Notion PMM Owais Khan reveal why it’s important to build for yourselves first, why distribution is a new moat, and how a simple Chrome extension became Cron, the calendar app acquired by Notion.

To learn more about how Notion is supporting startups, please visit: https://ntn.so/founderfridays

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:32 Tackling a Broad Category
03:52 Toy to Product: Building for Yourself
10:00 The Launch Moment
15:42 Word of Mouth and Release Marketing
21:35 Closing the Feedback Loop
26:00 Cron x Notion Acquisition
30:44 Advice Block