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Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:28 Jean-Denis Greze And then when I was at Dropbox, I was responsible internally for kind of trying to build a Slack like product, basically a product that would allow communication on top of like the documents that are in, in, in Dropbox.
Kevin Egan: Biggest Lesson on Managing Sales Teams at Slack and Atlassian | E1034 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24 Harry Stebbings Salesforce, Dropbox, and Slack, and I thought there's gonna be, like, one or two lessons from each that have really shaped how you think, and so I wanted to delve into each in a quickfire round.
- ▶ 3:32 Harry Stebbings Slack is such a hyper-growth story that you're, you know, core and central to. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:47 Kevin Egan I think Slack was able to do it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:03 Kevin Egan Well, coming into Salesforce and Dropbox and Slack and Atlassian, there were, there were already small teams built out, but I do favor hiring two to three at a time if you can afford it.
- ▶ 15:46 Kevin Egan At Slack, we were comfortable with them positioning their own service, and so I think both have their advantages.
- ▶ 36:28 Harry Stebbings So imagine you, the night before you joined Atlassian, or Slack, as a sales leader, what would you have called yourself up and said?
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, do you do the 70, 20 10 at Slack?
- ▶ 5:58 Noah Weiss Uh, Slack, obviously, was, was two stories of that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Noah Weiss And so for Slack, I went off to walk through all of them, but I would say probably 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:29 Noah Weiss Slack has probably around 1200 people across product design and engineering. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Noah Weiss Yeah Uh,, I mean I,, I'll hate to confess, but obviously, you know, we use Slack for a lot of these things, but what I would say is the most typical flow would be someone will write a doc that kind of frames what the discussion is, the key…
- ▶ 23:08 Noah Weiss I mean, the really funny thing to me about all this is I think Slack is often, you know, to your point where you refer to this as one of the original companies who kind of started building in this space. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:16 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when you review many of the product decisions you made with regards to like the product-led growth features at Slack, what are the biggest, if you were to choose actually a biggest PLG product feature mistake, what was that, and… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:45 Noah Weiss Not strictly PLG, but I, you know, we have this, uh, product capability called Slack connect. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:51 Harry Stebbings People say the speed of innovation at Slack is slower today. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:17 Noah Weiss You know, you have huddles, you have clips, you have canvas, which was just launched, you have workflow.
- ▶ 32:17 Noah Weiss You know, you have huddles, you have clips, you have canvas, which was just launched, you have workflow.
- ▶ 32:17 Noah Weiss You know, you have huddles, you have clips, you have canvas, which was just launched, you have workflow.
- ▶ 32:17 Noah Weiss You know, you have huddles, you have clips, you have canvas, which was just launched, you have workflow.
- ▶ 37:14 Noah Weiss This is very similar to Slack story. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:21 Noah Weiss So I think for, I mean, in the context of Slack, what I would say would be in that 10% bucket would be definitely the entire Slack 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:42 Noah Weiss It was Slack connect. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:20 Noah Weiss I think the AV stuff was another audio visual with huddles and clips and some of the newer coworking capabilities we've been introducing.
- ▶ 41:20 Noah Weiss I think the AV stuff was another audio visual with huddles and clips and some of the newer coworking capabilities we've been introducing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:11 Noah Weiss It was called posts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:07 Noah Weiss And I think it took us a long time, and obviously we've launched Canvas recently, or we're rolling it out actually now, and it's a different take on the same space, but I think what we realized was that the bar for just speed and quality…
- ▶ 45:58 Noah Weiss To be honest, and this is maybe colored more by our experience at Slack, I think 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:07 Harry Stebbings Which product leader outside of Slack do you most admire and why? 4 times in the scene
Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:47 Clément Delangue If you're Slack, you have one code base that is optimized and does what you want to do for, for your users.
20Sales: How to Scale a Career While Scaling a Family; Work-Life Balance; Parental Leave | E1012 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:38 Maggie Hott I recently joined OpenAI and previously before that I was leading sales over at Webflow and as well as at Slack for spent about six and a half years there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:16 Maggie Hott There was a role that opened up at Slack for an enterprise leader, and at that point in time, I was a senior manager of mid-market.
- ▶ 41:51 Harry Stebbings Pop on Slack or pop on email just quickly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:39 Reina Gupta And I sat right next to, um, our VP of sales at Slack for, for three years, and he would see me, you know, the days I was in charge of picking up my kids, he would see me get up at four, four 30, always with, have a good day, Renu, awesome… 3 times in the scene
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:57 Joost de Valk So we have a Slack, a shared Slack channel with each and every one of them, and I talk to almost every one of them on a, uh, well, not always daily, but most of them on a weekly basis.
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:40 Rob Lacher I choose Johann Butting, who's Global SVP Sales at Slack, and he has built Slack in Europe, Dropbox in Europe, and he's a board member in our portfolio company, Accenture, where I'm on the board with Luciana from Sequoia and Mark from… 2 times in the scene
Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:09 Jackie Reses Um, you will get emails and slacks from me, uh, at any hour, including in the middle of the night sometimes when I wake up and I'm, and there's something on my mind that I can't get rid of, and I'll get up at three in the morning and need…
Zach Lawryk: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Engineering | E980 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:57 Harry Stebbings but I, I, I want to ask, you know, you spent time at obviously Salesforce, you mentioned that, but also Slack, where you worked with many incredible people, Maggie being one of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:57 Zach Lawryk Like Slack, it took multiple years.
- ▶ 23:41 Zach Lawryk There was something that we did at Slack.
- ▶ 33:16 Zach Lawryk When we were at Slack, we sort of built it from, from scratch.
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:15 Ariel Cohen But then, now, people want software like OpenAI, like Slack, like Navan, and by the way, look at the Slack story inside Salesforce. 4 times in the scene
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:16 Hila Qu If your product has a social collaboration, network effect, that kind of thing, think about Slack, LinkedIn, right, or, or anything like, or, or Airtable, Figma, hiring for growth early on, a little bit earlier, will allow you to…
- ▶ 1:00:13 Hila Qu It is a super app combining Facebook, payment, um, Slack, everything, and that completely changed the trajectory of growth, how growth has been done.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:22 Harry Stebbings As a startup, you can't get the head of sales from Slack to join your PLG company.
Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings So you've worked at the incredible institution that is Slack before. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:45 Maggie Hott And so did Slack, these random donut meetups were essentially kind of like virtual coffee chats and you just need to put yourself out there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 Maggie Hott You need to be in different Slack channels.
- ▶ 11:34 Maggie Hott And I'll break down a little bit of what this looked like at Slack, as well as what we're doing at Webflow. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:29 Harry Stebbings You mentioned it being a big learning from, from Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:11 Maggie Hott I mean, it was nights and weekends.
- ▶ 43:05 Maggie Hott And do you just need something a little bit more stable or are you okay with having, you know, in my case in Slack, I think I probably had seven different jobs within my six years there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:43 Maggie Hott Uh, so I actually helped to change our parental leave at both Slack as well as Webflow. 2 times in the scene
Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:57 Ben Chestnut And so I, I took a picture of it, posted on Slack,
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:44 Jason Lemkin Stuart Butterfield and I were on Quora talking about how quickly Slack would grow.
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:21 Harry Stebbings Is it WhatsApp groups, Slack groups? 2 times in the scene
20 Sales: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Onboarding for New Sales Reps and Sales Leaders, The Biggest Red Flags in the First 30 Days & What Can Be Done to Set Them Up for Success with Leaders from Figma, Dropbox, Miro and more.
- ▶ 11:55 Harry Stebbings And before Sequoia, Danny spent four years at Slack as their head of enterprise sales, growing the business from a hundred million dollars to a billion dollars in revenue. 2 times in the scene
Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:45 Vaibhav Sahgal And one of my favorite stories was, was about slack. 2 times in the scene
Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:45 Kyle Harrison Um, some examples of this, even like Andreessen has some of these where they have like, you know, Slack channels where they'll take the CROs of all their companies and dump them into Slack channel.
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:42 Paul Davison There are a number of great products for big admin led community management, you know, discord and slack and like legacy Facebook groups.
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:26 Harry Stebbings Like, they rebuilt Slack for themselves.
Calendly CPO Annie Pearl: Hiring Advice for Product; Calendly's Second Product | 20VC #921 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:17 Annie Pearl I think, you know, you see every iconic PLG company, whether it's Slack or Dropbox or
- ▶ 48:48 Annie Pearl I think the way that Slack has actually been able to successfully replace the majority of my email communication, which I was very leery of when they first sort of, you know, came out with the product and, and sort of stated that, or, or… 4 times in the scene
Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:36 Kieran Flanagan If I just include my Slack channel, can I grow my Slack channel to like a million users, and that could be a meaningful way how I grow my business, then that's probably hard to do, but if it includes like your events, and your media, and… 2 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:14 Des Traynor Like, like why, why isn't Slack part of the G suite?
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:02 Sonali De Rycker If that makes sense, companies that will go public companies that will be remembered, you know, the likes of the Atlassians and the Slacks and the Dropboxes and the Facebooks, et cetera, of the world and many others.
20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings But before we dive into the show today, if you've been listening to TwentyVC, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 48:26 Darius Contractor And so there's examples like Dropbox and Slack and others who do it.
- ▶ 49:53 Harry Stebbings on tools like Zoom and Slack.
20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
- ▶ 4:48 Jason Lemkin I remember waking up when I read that Mamoon had invested in Slack back in the day.
- ▶ 27:42 Harry Stebbings If you come out of a top Facebook, Twitter, Datadog, Slack, you name it, you can raise...
- ▶ 34:19 Harry Stebbings The head of sales at Slack, done.
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?
- ▶ 13:15 Harry Stebbings Is it like just messages throughout the week on Slack and on WhatsApp? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Startups Fail Because They Do Not Take Enough Risk, Why A/B Testing is Inefficient and Slows You Down, Why It is Impossible To Hire Good PMs so Stop Trying & 3 Key Signals The Best Engineers Present with Grant LaFontaine, Founder & CEO @ Whatnot
- ▶ 8:56 Grant LaFontaine We just spin up a slack dog fooding channel, and the whole company goes at it, and everyone sends the feedback, and the engineers stack rank it, and figure out what they want to fix, and what they want to push out.
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:59 Sid Sijbrandij It was a stretch, and we had a fundraising Slack channel where we keep, kept people updated, but we knew we were
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 35:15 Lenny Rachitsky I think Slack is something I've kind of come to re-appreciate recently. 3 times in the scene
Shopify President, Harley Finkelstein on What is Being a Good Husband | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:52 Harley Finkelstein And if you don't want to say it right now in front of the whole group, send me a Slack note immediately after and say, Hey, I'd like to just get another, uh, I'd like to do another summary.
20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Danny is a partner at Sequoia Capital, and prior to entering the world of venture, Danny spent four years at Slack, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 Harry Stebbings Incredible four years at Slack, with the enterprise sales all going from a hundred million to a billion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:27 Dannie Herzberg Yeah, the number one takeaway, I'll get into some business priorities, but my number one takeaway from Slack, nothing matters more than people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:18 Dannie Herzberg I said it was a hallmark trade of the hyper growth phase at Slack where I was there.
- ▶ 41:09 Dannie Herzberg I wanted to help build slack, so I pitched a role that didn't exist, and I eliminated all the competition from my interview process.
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:42 unnamed speaker I mean, I never want to run a huge org, and so there'll be a breaking point at which, you know, when the slack gets unmanageable, and so, you know, we're single digit number of people right now,
20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro
- ▶ 28:03 Rob Schutz Donuts through Slack and all of these things, but the reality is, if your incentives are not aligned, and you're not working towards a common set of goals, there is always going to be inherent friction.
20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- ▶ 13:22 Kyle Parrish You're catching up on emails, getting dopamine hits, checking slack, whatever it may be.
- ▶ 35:20 Kyle Parrish I think one that I have a lot of respect for is Slack. 5 times in the scene
20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
- ▶ 12:11 Adam Foroughi We, one, Slack as an efficiency tool has been just insanely popular for our company, and HipChat came before it, and as you put it into asynchronous chat and real-time dialogue, you start not needing meeting, and I sort of go, look, if you…
20VC Unscripted: Pricing is Crazy, Pre-Emptive Rounds are Normal, Pricing at 200x Revenue Multiple is Common, There is More Cash Than Ever. What Happens Next; Market Analysis with Ryan Denehy, Founder and CEO @ Electric
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings With Electric, Ryan has raised over one hundred and eighty eight million dollars for the company from the likes of GGV, Bessemer, Slack,
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- ▶ 29:04 Elena Verna I learned from Fareed, who was director of growth at Slack, that premortems are far more effective than postmortems.
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 1:10:00 Chris Sacca I mean, I never want to run a huge org, and so there'll be a breaking point at which when the slack gets unmanageable, you know, we're single digit number of people right now.
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Anton has led General Atlantic's investments in the likes of Alibaba, CrowdStrike, Facebook, Slack, and Snapchat, and co-led investments in Adyen and ByteDance.
- ▶ 2:33 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub, and so if you're looking for an easier way to run your startup remotely, or just a better way to manage your HR and IT, visit rippling.com…
- ▶ 44:57 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps, like Slack and GitHub, and so if you're looking for an easier way to run your startup remotely, or just a better way to manage your HR and IT, visit rippling.com…
20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 2:39 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub,
- ▶ 38:24 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub, and so if you're looking for an easier way to run your startup remotely, or just a better way to manage your HR and IT, visit rippling.com…
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 2:13 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub
- ▶ 49:05 Harry Stebbings You can instantly set up people's payroll, benefits, and all of their apps like Slack and GitHub,
20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
- ▶ 29:58 Sameer Gandhi But if you're George or someone like that, or Stuart at Slack or Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, you know, or