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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
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.