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(I work at Notion)

The public API is extremely important to the future of Notion. We maintain date-versioned backwards compatibility similarly to Stripe.

When it comes to your content, you can export your entire Notion workspace (or just the part of it that’s your CMS) as Markdown/CSV or semantic HTML, including all your uploaded assets and files. The HTML export is read to host as-is or post-process with BeautifulSoup, etc.

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You have raised 340 million dollars. Huge expectation to grow and make money, which means numbers will become more important. "free" stuff will go away, it always does.

Investors will want an exit event, sooner than later. IPO (unlikely in next 2 years, macro issues) or flipping it to ... someone.

Just the normal cycle, nothing Notion-specific.

Notion remains founder-controlled and enjoys favorable terms with investors. For example, we closed a tender offer for employees at our peak valuation after the market downturn: https://www.notion.so/blog/sequoia-index-purchase-shares-fro...

What is the "free" stuff you think would go away? The public API? But, we need to have a public API for many of our customers to be willing to pay us. It's an essential feature.

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