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Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:48 Marc Benioff Our commerce cloud, our analytics, Tableau, Slack,
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:29 Dan Fougere We're, we're slacking like on a Sunday night that the engineer says, Hey guys, his dashboard has just went down with the other products and he's got data dog working.
- ▶ 59:07 Dan Fougere So you can call me, slack me, text me, call me, basically, 24 seven.
Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:52 Sam Altman Like, we have, I was just, like, right before this, I was sending someone a Slack message about
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:49 Harry Stebbings Um, in Europe, 62% of large enterprises still don't know what Slack is.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 AJ Tennant Uh, you know, I, I think a lot of people would say it's innate, you know, you, you're born with it, it's that your personality, someone that's outgoing, but my, my philosophy is that pretty much humans can learn anything if they're taught…
- ▶ 6:35 AJ Tennant On, on kind of like how you're getting those initial customers to product market fit, you know, at, at Slack and at Glean, you know, at Slack, Stuart was very involved on figuring out how to get those first customers and making them… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:28 Harry Stebbings Slack was an incredible journey for you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 AJ Tennant I think the, the, the second biggest lesson from just the, the experience at Slack, um, you know, and for context, I was there, kind of employee 50. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 AJ Tennant Now, the key thing that we've learned, and I, you know, learned this at Slack as well, but at Glean,
- ▶ 30:28 AJ Tennant So I think one thing that I learned at Slack is like all Slack did was look at 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 AJ Tennant I didn't realize that that was a hiring methodology until Bob Fratty taught me that at Slack, which is kind of this who hiring, the who hiring method is what we call a chronological interview.
- ▶ 43:11 AJ Tennant Why I love sales and why I love enterprise SaaS sales, like I, I went from ad sales at Facebook to, uh, B to B at Slack and I'm never going, never going back is like the level of learning and depth you get to do, like figuring out how to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:27 AJ Tennant Uh, we don't, it's interesting, we, we're debating this, so at, at Slack, anyone that was coming in as an AE had to do a writing exercise, and it wasn't a take home, like I think you just had to write something.
- ▶ 54:39 AJ Tennant You know, I, I, at Slack, we, we got this sort of like, when, when the acquisition happened, and even maybe before the acquisition, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:56 AJ Tennant We lost the distribution war at Slack.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:02 Mamoon Hamid Slack created a market.
- ▶ 28:50 Mamoon Hamid The next Slack, you know, and fortunately for us, Yammer got acquired, and a year later we had a chance to invest in Slack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:24 Mamoon Hamid Probably Slack, I would say, you know, even, um, at the 250 post, uh, that's, you know, with all the dilution over time and,
- ▶ 38:33 Mamoon Hamid Slack created a market.
- ▶ 40:17 Mamoon Hamid And I would put Stuart Butterfield from Slack in that bucket.
- ▶ 44:53 Harry Stebbings Was Slack an obvious home run when you did it? 6 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:23 Harry Stebbings They struggle to onboard Slack.
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:26 Maria Angelidou Um, but what we do, because I, I think transparency, uh, is very, very important, we record every review, and we have a Slack chat, we use Slack, and we post every, about every review, the materials, um, the recording, uh, the action… 2 times in the scene
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:51 Mike Hudack I have kind of an obsessive personality, you know, Sling's growing now, and, uh, we have a channel, we have a Slack channel called Pulse, where we see every sign up, and we see every transaction, and then, you know, we have a dashboard… 2 times in the scene
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:38 Kaz Nejatian I actually once looked at my Slack history, uh, with, uh, with Toby.
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:14 Dax Dasilva What's great about being the executive chair is, it's great for a founder, because you can be on the email, you can be on the slack, you can be in the, get the pulse of the business, but you really aren't in the day-to-day operations.
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:03 Cameron Adams So six years later, launch it, it becomes something like Slack or Microsoft teams.
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:50 Mark Roberge And then I've asked a lot of people from Chris Degnan, one of our LPs or the founding CEO of Snowflake to like, you know, um, Kevin Egan, who I did a podcast who took like Salesforce and Dropbox and Atlassian and Slack upstream.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:40 Ashley Kelly Like, we, we just move so quickly, and by the time, you know, I wake up and I'm, you know, talking to my team in EMEA, it's like they only have a couple more hours left in the day that they're working, and, like, we miss out on a day all…
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:11 Aravind Srinivas Like, not just can build pipes to every single, like, enterprise tool like Slack or Notion.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:08 Jason Lemkin Maybe we don't need as much slack or as much mule soft or other pieces.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:44 Jason Lemkin And how important 20, 21 was for exits and slack selling, slack selling for twenty seven billion at a billion in revenue. 3 times in the scene
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:57 Nikesh Arora They're all started with different intents or slack in this early generation of being a gaming company.
- ▶ 32:07 Harry Stebbings Like I think 48% don't know what slack is.
Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:13 Harry Stebbings Most do not even have Slack.
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:30 Girish Mathrubootham तो अब हमारे नए product के launch के लिए guardrails हैं और मुझे ये बहुत अच्छा लगा लेकिन हमारे product काम नहीं किये हाँ पहली बात जो मैं आपको बताना चाहूंगा वो ये है कि दो उधारण मैं आपको दे सकता हूँ एक है एक product जिससे fresh connect कहा… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:49 Girish Mathrubootham कि Slack और Teams के साथ collaboration करना सही रहेगा.
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:33 Girish Mathrubootham So I think today, if you look at many, many successful PLG companies, whether it's, uh, uh, Atlassian or Slack or, uh, Zoom or, uh, HubSpot,
- ▶ 33:11 Girish Mathrubootham Uh, so where this was the early days of Slack when we saw Slack, uh, uh, really growing, uh, rapidly. 8 times in the scene
Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:28 Jean-Michel Lemieux A Slack message every day going, hey, here's two decisions that I saw. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:50 Harry Stebbings Do they sit down with their team and say, hey, I would like a Slack every morning with
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:11 Sami Inkinen Oh, we were building a gaming company and then it turned into a slack.
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:01 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) You could also build a how to convince your boss kit, which basically gives that Coca-Cola developer a message that they can send in Slack or in Teams to their manager to help them convince on why they should do the product.
- ▶ 57:08 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) A lot of times you will see that Slack or even in Reforge, there's sort of frameworks, the frameworks about like a growth loop, what a growth loop does, why you should care about it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:32 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Like we add them to our Slack to do an exercise.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:35 Erik Allebest I am micro dosing on Slack. 3 times in the scene
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:09 Sean Murray So you can say you've got Adobe as a customer or the snowflakes or those sexy logos, Slack, Salesforce, whatever. 3 times in the scene
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:18 Zaria Parvez So the team has now definitely expanded and it's honestly like a slack channel of dumping.
- ▶ 17:08 Harry Stebbings You mentioned, like, elements that are trending that you're kind of taking account of and putting in, you know, Slack channels.
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:55 Harry Stebbings I think we all overly get excited, and actually, you know, 50% of European corporates don't know what slack is.
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:19 Brian Halligan There's another thing I would say about prioritizing, Harry, is I think too many people run their life through Slack and through their email, and that's everyone else's priority list imposed on you, and so you're really just spending your… 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:50 Jason Lemkin Mamoon goes in and it's like, it's going to be slack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:36 Jason Lemkin Slack was worth twenty seven billion when Salesforce bought it and probably worth two billion today.