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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 46:07 Matteo Franceschetti Yeah, so, um, we have two different channels, so one is Slack for work, and one is WhatsApp for private communication, so our life, and we never mix them, and so I might be screaming on Slack, we have to get this done by the end of the… 3 times in the scene
Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 14:55 Jean-Denis Greze And normally now they just go to Slack and they're like, Hey, who's, who's working with client X, right?
- ▶ 1:11:06 Jean-Denis Greze Uh, for a lot of bugs that come in, for a lot of like simpler little things or little like visual tweaks, we are kicking off Devon because we just find the team experience and Slack's really, really good.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 45:59 Cliff Weitzman Um, but the way I kind of think about it is yes, I can have multiple agents running on my computer, or I can have several Slack chats with really smart people who are bigger domain experts than I am.
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 10:21 Jason Lemkin Um, you know, Slack was bought for twenty seven billion, which is rough and tough twice what Hugging Face apparently is going to get bought of.
- ▶ 56:49 Jason Lemkin Some folks will use us through, um, Slack.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 33:40 Harry Stebbings Jerry, do you remember when it was Slack?
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 47:58 Jason Lemkin That is in a hyper-competitive space rather than asking how many seats of slack you want.
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 12:03 Matt Swulinski It could be an admin in Slack or let's say you're a smaller team and anyone can add apps or 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:30 Matt Swulinski And then bubble up to me a message in Slack being like, hey, these need your decisions.
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:24:03 Harry Stebbings Because do you remember the days when Slack, one to 10 in 18 months, was like the gold standard?
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 1:14:06 Harry Stebbings We used to be in the day where Slack was the golden child, where, like, one to ten million in revenue in 18 months was, like, amazing, and now we have companies like Fireworks, where you scale to eight hundred million in revenue in a…
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 47:43 Fred Turner Um, Slack has been like notoriously hard internally for us to, like too many, so many people have built integrations and like workflows that are now working in Slack. 3 times in the scene
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:55 Mike Mignano We saw this play out with Slack. 2 times in the scene
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:25 Clay Bavor You can read your own Slack messages. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:08 Rory O'Driscoll I would be curious to get people's thoughts on the whole, you mentioned here, Claude Tag and Claude Tag in Slack. 8 times in the scene
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:01 Ryan Petersen Salesforce, Slack is also going to be a great, turn out to be a great acquisition, because like, that's pretty sticky. 5 times in the scene
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:12 Jason Calacanis And I remember that probably the smartest CTO in my portfolio just in the early days ran Devon and slack and he would just tell, tell Devon to go do these things and come back and make the commit on their own.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:49 Brendan Foody Well, the reason is that if a model is able to, for example, read through every message written in Slack over the last six months, the model can presumably structure a table of, you know, hear all the different customer conversations that…
- ▶ 26:30 Brendan Foody It's just like the barrier to automating everything that you can do in, say, Google Workspace is how do we cover the full distribution of all of the context, i.e. messages, slacks, slides, Excel sheets, and all of the tasks, prompts, and…
- ▶ 36:37 Brendan Foody Like we're building out an eval set that measures how effectively agents can build end-to-end SaaS applications, where twenty-twenty-five was the year of how do you get a model to make a PR and a code base, and twenty-twenty-six is the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:49 Brendan Foody Uh, almost marketplace and network effect around it, or Slack has Slack connect, right?
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:33 Jason Lemkin I did it to offset the dilution. 2 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:00 Cliff Weitzman And then I'm like, if you are not using this tool right now, like, it's like a chat in everyone's Slack, comment, explain why.
- ▶ 1:04:38 Harry Stebbings Slack messages kill your company.
- ▶ 1:04:41 Harry Stebbings Any tips for me on Slack etiquette? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:10 Cliff Weitzman That should have just been an email, or that could have been a Slack message.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:58 Jason Lemkin I sent this to Amelia on our team, and she's like, per day in Slack?
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:16 Tobi Lütke Like if you, if you're building a large scale AI system, um, like we have one, which they think what river, which, um, lives in, uh, Slack, um, and, uh, does 3 times in the scene
AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:37 Adam Foroughi The benefit of not doing things in these one-on-one silos and very structured is you can document everything in slacks or transcripted video calls.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:21 Jason Lemkin I'd get an investor update with, hooray, our wows are up, and I'd be like, you know, I, I know Mamoon used to cheer that at Slack, but, but that's a sign of a struggling startup.
- ▶ 1:05:43 Jason Lemkin In 60 seconds, you get a slack back.
- ▶ 1:23:18 Jason Lemkin Uh, e-commerce, marketing, data, analytics, Slack, and you run it, your whole business on Salesforce.
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:11 Aaron Levie Like, I, I have Slack channels and, and WhatsApp groups where people on the weekend are, are just like working with Cloud Code or Codex building stuff, and they're public company CEOs.
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:24 unnamed speaker And her last gig was CEO of Slack, right?
- ▶ 1:25:10 unnamed speaker I mean, I always tell my CEOs up and down on Slack, dude, on the thing where you're unique and different, you know, where you're changing the world, do it as different as you like, but all the boring stuff, just give the market what it…
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:28 unnamed speaker Yes, and I, I put a message in Slack saying these two people have reached the Mount Olympus of sales at 11 Labs because in two months already, like, did their quota, right?
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:24 unnamed speaker Denise Dresser, who was CEO of Slack, who came from Salesforce just a couple of months ago, and you put her in charge of basically everything go to market and related, right?
- ▶ 40:23 unnamed speaker I could be wrong, but I don't think it's just to get somebody on your slack and get a little wisdom.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:42 Harry Stebbings What sales communications platform are you on when, when you think about like you as a team and there's an update in the market is, is it Slack? 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:52 Harry Stebbings Dude, we were doing this eight years ago when, you know, you went from one to 10 at Slack, and it was like, holy shit, that's amazing.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:28 Lucas Swisher Figma, Glean, Rippling, Slack.
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:17 Alexander Emberikos Maybe you should acquire startups, you know, that are no longer a business or that, and, uh, but have a lot of, like, data, like, say, they're Slack or something.
- ▶ 45:03 Alexander Emberikos This, this is kind of a stretch, but an analogy here is I used to work at Dropbox, and for a while, this is before Slack was big, and for a while we thought, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:34 Alexander Emberikos However, what we saw is that Slack is just such a center of gravity of people just like talking to each other. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:31 Alexander Emberikos And so, like, again, I learned that from watching how Slack just absolutely took off.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:13 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Like we use Slack as an example today, like, which is a Salesforce company, right?
- ▶ 1:00:57 Sebastian Siemiatkowski How can it be that Klanak historically had a customer relationship with Sephora, and we had information about that customer relationship in Slack, in Salesforce, in Google Docs, in Google Slack, kind of the same information over and over… 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:32 Jason Lemkin Slack never raised prices and still grew at 140% NRR.
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:56 Winston Weinberg And what that allows you to do is you can kind of, like, focus before the stream of slacks and the stream of emails come in, and I think that, like, couple hours in the morning, especially when I can go to the gym and I can kind of think…
- ▶ 4:21 Winston Weinberg One of the ones I have that I think was a good habit in the beginning of the company is now, and now it's starting to get bad, is I zero out Slack, like, every, like, 15 minutes, and so I'm in, like, almost every single Slack channel, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:07 Harry Stebbings And you said, like, checking slack too much.
- ▶ 1:12:28 Winston Weinberg That's like Slack level, right? 2 times in the scene
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 31:44 Noam Lovinsky I used to really love, uh, slack when I was in my, uh, you know, startup phase and near 10 people in the room, and it was like one of the best products that I had ever seen. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 24:44 Luke Harries and then we actually have an amplified channel in our Slack, where the entire team's in, and when we do a launch, we post all the different links for the different tweet thread, the LinkedIn,
- ▶ 55:37 Luke Harries So for enterprise, it's very clear, which is you sign one contract, say you sign a large enterprise, hypothetically Slack, and you land then one seat, and then you expand, and then you can look through and be like, oh, our NRR after one… 2 times in the scene
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:29 David George So, you know, they famously were in NVIDIA in, in that fund, uh, you know, and they did some really good investments, like Slack, like Garnet.
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 1:08:55 Raz Herzberg Our product technical documentation connected to our internal Slack channels, connected to product telemetry, and connected to the wide internet. 2 times in the scene
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:13 Jason Lemkin If I'm, if I don't want all of it going out of Slack or whatever, I mean, many incumbents, I think it's the best excuse there is because it's the, the existential risk to, is just too much to the vendor.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:15 Harry Stebbings I mean, Jonathan, these guys are so far off adopting Slack and Notion, let alone building custom models and embracing the latest AI tools.
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:38 Maor Shlomo And we've built, like, this built-in capability to build AI agents, and we've integrated it with WhatsApp and Slack and whatever, so now you can actually build bots, not only applications,
AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:06 Harry Stebbings We don't have Slack.
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:24 Mike Cannon-Brookes We have HRS systems and CRM systems and project management systems and lots of communication systems from Zoom and Slack and all the things, right?
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:17 Jason Lemkin The second thing I thought as B to B guys is, um, this is like Slack two point O. 8 times in the scene
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:21 Jonathan Ross Um, I think we even have Slack integration now, where you push in, like, you commit things through Slack. 2 times in the scene
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:26 Brendan Foody But then, we started adding other degrees of complexity, of how do we get the model to use other tools, like accessing your Google Drive, like accessing your calendar, your Gmail, your Slack, all these different things.
20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
- ▶ 23:28 Amit Bendov What's in the emails, what's in the back channels, in Slack, what's like, and is it the right information?
20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
- ▶ 9:06 Jason James That's like former senior director at Slack that contributes about 15 hours a week, and it really helps fill the gaps on his enterprise experience, clarifying the requirements, prioritizing, because as good as our engineers are and as good…
- ▶ 23:30 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the 15 hours a week that the person from Slack partakes in with you. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:26 Jason James But no, at 11 PM, 12 PM, I could ping anyone on Slack and they were already online.
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:34 Marc Benioff It's not just in Slack.
- ▶ 20:12 Marc Benioff And that the connectivity is going to happen and that it's going to be open and that you look at like the Slack ecosystem or the Salesforce app exchange, the agentic layer is a huge investment opportunity.
- ▶ 20:29 unnamed speaker Now we have several agents that give daily updates in Slack.
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:04 Edwin Chen Like, did you not talk to them every day during Slack?
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:31 Jason Lemkin MuleSoft, Slack and others.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings She's also held incredible roles at Slack,
- ▶ 5:16 Kim Graves And that was Stuart Butterfield, and he was starting Slack. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 Kim Graves This was the same at Slack and at Notion, where we love selling the product, and our customers who are using the product love hearing 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Harry Stebbings That was great if they were using Slack from a product-led growth motion, they were using our freemium product, but from a B to B sales motion, we were very focused on selling to B to B. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:56 Kim Graves Early days, like as the first account manager at Slack, I was on customer calls on day two.
- ▶ 51:03 Kim Graves And so before the seller would have to aggregate all of this information from Slack and the customer's website and Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Kim Graves So if they're already using Salesforce, they're already using Microsoft Teams, or Slack, or Google Drive, how can you start to integrate into those systems?
- ▶ 1:07:56 Kim Graves Case in point, I was at Slack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:22 Kim Graves It is in my DNA to just do it, to build, to showcase that I can do it, and I think it's being okay with not always having doing as the outcome, like writing the next Slack message, creating the next Notion document, ensuring that I'm doing…
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:16 unnamed speaker Maybe not, but once in a while, like a, like a slack or something, you need something to come up from the bottom to disrupt a market instead of coming from the enterprise.
- ▶ 1:01:48 Harry Stebbings The thing I just can't get, and a lot of my companies are really perplexed by it, is the slack lockdown. 7 times in the scene
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:51 unnamed speaker And, you know, we had a mention there of, I will say the whole service, Salesforce throttling slack seems pathetically lame, irritating to customers. 11 times in the scene
Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:33 Varun Mohan And then if they do, is it fine for it to just be on Slack?
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 25:44 Luke Harries You need to, like, get it across every single channel, and then we actually have an amplified channel in our Slack, where the entire team's in, and when we do a launch, we post all the different links for the different tweet thread, the…
- ▶ 56:39 Luke Harries So for enterprise, it's very clear, which is you sign one contract, say you sign a large enterprise, hypothetically Slack, and you land then one seat, and then you expand, and then you can look through and be like, oh, our NRR after one… 2 times in the scene
20Sales: Sierra: Inside Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Sales Machine & How to Prospect, Outbound and Close Enterprise Deals in AI
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Now, before Sierra, Reggie was the Head of Sales in North America at Slack and Area Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Salesforce.
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings I spoke to many of the team from Slack and Salesforce, so thank you for joining me.
- ▶ 6:27 Reggie Marable When I left, well, not left, but because Salesforce and Slack are the same company, but when I went to Slack, what I didn't do is just take the Salesforce playbook and try to implement that at Slack. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 Reggie Marable We have a Slack channel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:53 Reggie Marable It's pervasive throughout Slack.
- ▶ 50:04 Reggie Marable Whether if we're in person, it's an in-person meeting, we'll just huddle right after, or if it's a virtual, we'll just jump on a Slack huddle and do it, but we do it
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 13:50 Mayur Gupta So for example, Slack has network effects baked in. 2 times in the scene
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