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Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:01 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, I think as a stat, 32% of European corporates do not know what Slack is.
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:08 Davis Smith It sends out polls through Slack, which we use Slack, and I measure, uh,
Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:40 Geoff Charles I mean, I, we have, I'll tell you, we have Slack channels with every single negative feedback we get from customers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:53 Geoff Charles So I, I think if we weren't in the B to B like fintech space, I would say incumbents, and you've seen that with like Microsoft teams and slack, right?
Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:06 Guillaume Cabane I want to say these days, uh, Mercy Grace, who used to run marketing at Slack, uh, has launched a product called Panobi, uh, where I'm not involved for once.
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:03 Jeff Seibert Slack was a game.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41:01 Matteo Franceschetti And I can talk to them because I wouldn't call them at 10 PM, but I would slack them. 3 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:08 Des Traynor Understanding that we have to play nice alongside like workforce management solutions, uh, CRMs, whether it's like Salesforce or HubSpot or whatever, QA tools, Slack, you name it.
- ▶ 1:22:51 Des Traynor I, you know, like basically, if I was the CEO of Google, what I'd do is I'd say, I need you guys to build me a Slack, a fully functional Slack equivalent, 3 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:25 Ryan Petersen We have an open channel in our Slack instance where anybody can ask the leadership team a question.
- ▶ 30:38 Ryan Petersen In our Slack instance where anybody can ask the leadership team a question.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:26 Auren Hoffman You didn't even like you slack 10 years ago.
- ▶ 23:53 Jason Lemkin And you know, it's funny when I started investing 10 years ago, and I remember when Slack and Zoom took off, I was like, I didn't see them.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:30 Matthieu Rouif I think if you do, especially we have a very transparent culture, we have a no DMs culture, so like, you don't write DMs, like every, it's an open space, or Slack is an open space, and we just do thread, like people, uh, uh, whispering,…
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:52 Scott Farquhar We had a competitor to Slack that we built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:43 Scott Farquhar Look, another decision we made was to shut down Stride, which was our competitor to Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:32 Scott Farquhar We sold it to Slack, but in the end it was easy because I could look at the staff and say,
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:25 Guillermo Rauch Very few people know this, but when Slack was coming up, a few competitors to Slack were actually giving you IRC as a service with some UI. 4 times in the scene
Matt Rosenberg: Why You Should Not Hire Sales Leaders From Big Companies | E1068 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:40 Harry Stebbings Do you have a Slack channel with lessons from calls?
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:12 Harry Stebbings Most corporates in London and Europe don't really know what slack is.
- ▶ 1:14:03 Christian Lanng I mean, it's so crazy, like, nobody is on Slack that I know in this environment.
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:27 Marc Benioff We just subleased a quarter million square feet of space in one of our buildings, the former Slack headquarters.
Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:32 Harry Stebbings Many, if you can believe it, Christian enterprises in Europe still have no idea what Slack is.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:18 Miles Grimshaw Um, if you go ask for their spend on Figma, many of them probably spend more than slack, uh, which is, was wild to think about. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:35 Harry Stebbings When we think about adoption, I think the biggest thing is that you mentioned Slack earlier and spend on Slack in particular. 2 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:03 Harry Stebbings Actually, the Stuart Butterfield and Slack example always rings true for me.
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:25 Howie Liu When I think about, you know, a Slack or a Dropbox, I think they actually fall into a very well-defined category in my mind. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:09 Harry Stebbings Um, uh, but like, we don't have slack in a lot of large enterprises. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:11 Howie Liu So the CIO can say, look, I'm going to go with teams and not use Slack.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:12 Harry Stebbings You can invest in Slack when it's a gaming company that pivots into Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:58 Jason Lemkin When, you know, Slack before it was, Slack was a gaming company, right? 3 times in the scene
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:53 Harry Stebbings Is it Slack with Airtable and Asana? 3 times in the scene
Lori Jiménez: How to Increase Sales; Hiring Tips from Google; Best Way to Grow Sales Teams | E1043 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:02 Lori Jiménez Like we just, and we, and we publicly in a, in a Slack channel, mark them when they're perfect.
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.