Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks 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.

Julia Haber, Co-founder & CEO of Home From College, joins Andrew Silard, Notion’s Head of Growth Marketing, to share how she turned years of on-campus brand work into a new kind of Gen Z career platform. From building an MVP by hand to scaling a full-stack marketplace backed by Google Ventures, Julia breaks down how she’s helping the next generation work, learn, and earn on their own terms.

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

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:47 Validating the Idea
05:25 Building the Marketplace
07:42 Finding a Co-founder
08:41 Scaling the Brand
11:54 AI and the Future of Work
13:51 Brand and Awareness
16:59 Building Community
20:49 The Tool Stack
21:48 Advice Block