Founder Fridays: Experiment or die with Neha Mittal, Just Words and Bryan Ng, Notion @Notion

Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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.

Neha Mittal, Co-founder & CEO of Just Words, joins Bryan Ng, Notion’s Head of Product Growth, to share lessons from scaling Twitter and Pinterest, why experimentation is a founder’s best tool, and how AI is raising the bar for growth and retention.

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

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
03:17 Big Tech Lessons
05:19 Experimentation Mindset
06:39 Founding Just Words
08:20 Startup Life Shift
10:32 People Challenges
12:00 Early Growth Mistakes
15:08 Experiment vs. Focus
17:58 AI & Growth
21:12 The Tool Stack
23:10 Advice Block

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