The Pivot That Built Ada Into a Unicorn

Founder Fridays · 5 Jun 2026

About this episode

Ada co-founder David Hariri joins Notion's Nancy Chen to trace the road from a failed social network to an AI-native customer-experience unicorn: pivoting with conviction, why respecting history makes better software, why giving customers sandboxes beats selling them visions, and why founders who go all-in on care tend to win.

About the show

Founder Fridays — Notion. Notion's founder series: builders in the trenches on product, design, fundraising and the lessons that never make it onto a slide.