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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 46:07 Matteo Franceschetti Yeah, so, um, we have two different channels, so one is Slack for work, and one is WhatsApp for private communication, so our life, and we never mix them, and so I might be screaming on Slack, we have to get this done by the end of the… 3 times in the scene
Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 14:55 Jean-Denis Greze And normally now they just go to Slack and they're like, Hey, who's, who's working with client X, right?
- ▶ 1:11:06 Jean-Denis Greze Uh, for a lot of bugs that come in, for a lot of like simpler little things or little like visual tweaks, we are kicking off Devon because we just find the team experience and Slack's really, really good.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 45:59 Cliff Weitzman Um, but the way I kind of think about it is yes, I can have multiple agents running on my computer, or I can have several Slack chats with really smart people who are bigger domain experts than I am.
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 10:21 Jason Lemkin Um, you know, Slack was bought for twenty seven billion, which is rough and tough twice what Hugging Face apparently is going to get bought of.
- ▶ 56:49 Jason Lemkin Some folks will use us through, um, Slack.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 33:40 Harry Stebbings Jerry, do you remember when it was Slack?
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 47:58 Jason Lemkin That is in a hyper-competitive space rather than asking how many seats of slack you want.
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 12:03 Matt Swulinski It could be an admin in Slack or let's say you're a smaller team and anyone can add apps or 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:30 Matt Swulinski And then bubble up to me a message in Slack being like, hey, these need your decisions.
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:24:03 Harry Stebbings Because do you remember the days when Slack, one to 10 in 18 months, was like the gold standard?
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 1:14:06 Harry Stebbings We used to be in the day where Slack was the golden child, where, like, one to ten million in revenue in 18 months was, like, amazing, and now we have companies like Fireworks, where you scale to eight hundred million in revenue in a…
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 47:43 Fred Turner Um, Slack has been like notoriously hard internally for us to, like too many, so many people have built integrations and like workflows that are now working in Slack. 3 times in the scene
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:55 Mike Mignano We saw this play out with Slack. 2 times in the scene
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:25 Clay Bavor You can read your own Slack messages. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:08 Rory O'Driscoll I would be curious to get people's thoughts on the whole, you mentioned here, Claude Tag and Claude Tag in Slack. 8 times in the scene
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:01 Ryan Petersen Salesforce, Slack is also going to be a great, turn out to be a great acquisition, because like, that's pretty sticky. 5 times in the scene
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:12 Jason Calacanis And I remember that probably the smartest CTO in my portfolio just in the early days ran Devon and slack and he would just tell, tell Devon to go do these things and come back and make the commit on their own.
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:49 Brendan Foody Well, the reason is that if a model is able to, for example, read through every message written in Slack over the last six months, the model can presumably structure a table of, you know, hear all the different customer conversations that…
- ▶ 26:30 Brendan Foody It's just like the barrier to automating everything that you can do in, say, Google Workspace is how do we cover the full distribution of all of the context, i.e. messages, slacks, slides, Excel sheets, and all of the tasks, prompts, and…
- ▶ 36:37 Brendan Foody Like we're building out an eval set that measures how effectively agents can build end-to-end SaaS applications, where twenty-twenty-five was the year of how do you get a model to make a PR and a code base, and twenty-twenty-six is the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:49 Brendan Foody Uh, almost marketplace and network effect around it, or Slack has Slack connect, right?
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:33 Jason Lemkin I did it to offset the dilution. 2 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:00 Cliff Weitzman And then I'm like, if you are not using this tool right now, like, it's like a chat in everyone's Slack, comment, explain why.
- ▶ 1:04:38 Harry Stebbings Slack messages kill your company.
- ▶ 1:04:41 Harry Stebbings Any tips for me on Slack etiquette? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:10 Cliff Weitzman That should have just been an email, or that could have been a Slack message.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:58 Jason Lemkin I sent this to Amelia on our team, and she's like, per day in Slack?
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:16 Tobi Lütke Like if you, if you're building a large scale AI system, um, like we have one, which they think what river, which, um, lives in, uh, Slack, um, and, uh, does 3 times in the scene
AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:37 Adam Foroughi The benefit of not doing things in these one-on-one silos and very structured is you can document everything in slacks or transcripted video calls.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:21 Jason Lemkin I'd get an investor update with, hooray, our wows are up, and I'd be like, you know, I, I know Mamoon used to cheer that at Slack, but, but that's a sign of a struggling startup.
- ▶ 1:05:43 Jason Lemkin In 60 seconds, you get a slack back.
- ▶ 1:23:18 Jason Lemkin Uh, e-commerce, marketing, data, analytics, Slack, and you run it, your whole business on Salesforce.
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:11 Aaron Levie Like, I, I have Slack channels and, and WhatsApp groups where people on the weekend are, are just like working with Cloud Code or Codex building stuff, and they're public company CEOs.
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:24 unnamed speaker And her last gig was CEO of Slack, right?
- ▶ 1:25:10 unnamed speaker I mean, I always tell my CEOs up and down on Slack, dude, on the thing where you're unique and different, you know, where you're changing the world, do it as different as you like, but all the boring stuff, just give the market what it…
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:28 unnamed speaker Yes, and I, I put a message in Slack saying these two people have reached the Mount Olympus of sales at 11 Labs because in two months already, like, did their quota, right?
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:24 unnamed speaker Denise Dresser, who was CEO of Slack, who came from Salesforce just a couple of months ago, and you put her in charge of basically everything go to market and related, right?
- ▶ 40:23 unnamed speaker I could be wrong, but I don't think it's just to get somebody on your slack and get a little wisdom.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:42 Harry Stebbings What sales communications platform are you on when, when you think about like you as a team and there's an update in the market is, is it Slack? 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:52 Harry Stebbings Dude, we were doing this eight years ago when, you know, you went from one to 10 at Slack, and it was like, holy shit, that's amazing.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:28 Lucas Swisher Figma, Glean, Rippling, Slack.
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:17 Alexander Emberikos Maybe you should acquire startups, you know, that are no longer a business or that, and, uh, but have a lot of, like, data, like, say, they're Slack or something.
- ▶ 45:03 Alexander Emberikos This, this is kind of a stretch, but an analogy here is I used to work at Dropbox, and for a while, this is before Slack was big, and for a while we thought, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:34 Alexander Emberikos However, what we saw is that Slack is just such a center of gravity of people just like talking to each other. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:31 Alexander Emberikos And so, like, again, I learned that from watching how Slack just absolutely took off.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:13 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Like we use Slack as an example today, like, which is a Salesforce company, right?
- ▶ 1:00:57 Sebastian Siemiatkowski How can it be that Klanak historically had a customer relationship with Sephora, and we had information about that customer relationship in Slack, in Salesforce, in Google Docs, in Google Slack, kind of the same information over and over… 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:32 Jason Lemkin Slack never raised prices and still grew at 140% NRR.
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:56 Winston Weinberg And what that allows you to do is you can kind of, like, focus before the stream of slacks and the stream of emails come in, and I think that, like, couple hours in the morning, especially when I can go to the gym and I can kind of think…
- ▶ 4:21 Winston Weinberg One of the ones I have that I think was a good habit in the beginning of the company is now, and now it's starting to get bad, is I zero out Slack, like, every, like, 15 minutes, and so I'm in, like, almost every single Slack channel, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:07 Harry Stebbings And you said, like, checking slack too much.
- ▶ 1:12:28 Winston Weinberg That's like Slack level, right? 2 times in the scene
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 31:44 Noam Lovinsky I used to really love, uh, slack when I was in my, uh, you know, startup phase and near 10 people in the room, and it was like one of the best products that I had ever seen. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 24:44 Luke Harries 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 LinkedIn,
- ▶ 55:37 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