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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
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
20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 37:01 Ishan Mukherjee Like, we, we have an iOS app, we have a Slack.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 42:13 Harry Stebbings I'm thinking European incumbents who still don't know what Slack and Notion is, let alone are adopting AI first principles.
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 18:36 Matt Biilmann Like we all use Slack and Messenger and WhatsApp and all of these chat tools for good reasons.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:14 Harry Stebbings Enterprises, especially in Europe, do not know what Slack is, let alone what Notion is.
Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password: How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:06 Julian Teixeira Feed me that through Slack.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:04 Fabien Pinckaers They have a lot of spreadsheets, but they use Slack for discussion, MailChimp to send email, WordPress for a website.
- ▶ 40:50 Fabien Pinckaers And then you have the small player, like Slack, MailChimp, uh, to send email Trello, Asana, and so on.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:20 Max Levchin Blip for whatever definition of in our systems or in our processes or in our models, anything, a separate conversation is carved off on Slack.
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:02 Eran Zinman Uh, it was the days before Slack.
- ▶ 53:32 Harry Stebbings And so you Slack and WhatsApp? 2 times in the scene