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Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
- ▶ 24:12 Fei-Fei Li Overnight, I got a slack. 2 times in the scene
Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
- ▶ 6:15 Amjad Masad I, I often write something publicly and then paste it on Slack.
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 6:03 Elena Burger Um, acquired Slack a couple of years ago, and, like, it could be something as simple as, like, you, you sort of interacting with, with a CRM via chatbot. 3 times in the scene
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 19:38 Aaron Levie And with regular humans, you don't get to look at the Slack channel of the person that, that is working with you or working for you.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 7:37 unnamed speaker But I also think that, you know, WhatsApp is you want to feel connected and Slack is you want to feel productive.
- ▶ 12:50 unnamed speaker Churn off of Slack or Deal or, you know. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Peter Yang Yeah, like a 50 message of Slack thread going back and forth.
How AI Agents Will Transform in 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
- ▶ 5:37 Stephanie Deng They'll analyze that data, and they'll report back with hypotheses and insights directly into Slack for humans to read.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 10:51 Erik Torenberg There should also be, relatedly, there should also be a version where it's like, you know, you see in Slack that's, you know, it's someone's birthday, or someone has a baby or something, and it suggests, hey, do you wanna, you know, get…
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 25:49 Alex Rampell Or, you know, slacks that were sent or Google Docs that were edited. 2 times in the scene
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
- ▶ 56:33 Emmett Shear It would be more like it lives in a Slack room.
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 51:21 Amjad Masad I'll have, like, a front-end Replit agent, and they have memory over multiple projects, and over time, and over interactions, and maybe they sit in your Slack, like a, like a worker, and you can, like, talk to them.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 37:41 Eugenia Kuyda Translate, and it would do that, and so that felt absolutely magical, and we were the first, uh, one of the first partners of OpenAI GPT-III API, and they, it was still crazy, because we still have a Slack channel where Greg Brockman is…
ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
- ▶ 13:09 Mati Staniszewski If you, if you put a person into all the slack channels and give them transparency, they actually get frequently distracted because then they read all the messages.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 22:22 Kevin Rose If you have a founder that builds through that framework of, okay, I'm not going to just do this just because every else, everyone else has, or I'm not just going to take the path of least resistance and kind of, you know, build a better…
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 23:48 Martin Casado Think about, like, Slack.
- ▶ 38:50 Aaron Levie And so we like checked off like a lot of the, like once you have slack, you don't need five other chat tools.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 1:17:23 Dylan Patel Now it's like, you know, you know, like literally, you know, we, in our, in our Slack and in some of these channels, like, oh, we found another 200 megawatt data center.
- ▶ 1:36:03 Dylan Patel You just send, like, we, we have Slack connects with, like, 30 neoclouds.
GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
- ▶ 17:56 Christina Kim To help me, like, craft whenever, like, I use it literally for as simple things as, like, Slack messages to figure out, like, how to phrase this well.
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 44:40 Martin Casado Seeing a bunch of, kind of, cursor, like, agent commits, and like, even, even in the last 24 hours, the Slack integration, seeing it come from Slack, and so I, I do think for, kind of, bite-sized, well articulate, tasks you can articulate… 2 times in the scene
Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
- ▶ 3:14 Michael Chime I was really inspired by companies like Slack or Yammer.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 12:29 Erik Torenberg So, uh, Instagram, you know, TinySpec was turned into Slack.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 29:15 Zeno Rocha Or look at the, the different interests from these people based on their Slack messages on top of, you know, this HR data.
"Death of a Salesforce”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 10:17 Marc Andreessen and we, we even, I mean, obviously we, we run a lot of in-person also, but we have, you know, very active Slack and, and, you know, there, there's a real feeling that like everybody's kind of, you know, in the same virtual space all the… 2 times in the scene
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 1:54 Immad Akhund There's no, it wasn't slack.
- ▶ 12:53 Immad Akhund Slack or, um, Zoom or, you know, all of those things existed.
- ▶ 17:06 Immad Akhund Like, founders follow each other on Twitter, they have, we're in WhatsApp groups, we're in Slack groups, like, there's a lot of ways that founders and investors talk to each other, uh, so that, yeah, it wasn't, I think if you, I don't…
Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
- ▶ 17:07 David Baszucki There's obviously many companies trying to build a co-pilot that you hook up to your email, your text, your Slack, your web browser and whatever, and it starts acting for you.
Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
- ▶ 38:13 Barry McArdle Like people will have retention policies on emails or slack, but by doing that, you're
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 37:27 Salim Ismail So these are all the peer-to-peer collaborative technologies like Asana, Slack, Zoom, Yammer, Chatter.
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 31:36 Marc Andreessen And so, you know, kind of off and away we went.
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 28:14 Alex Bouaziz Uh, and they have a plugin that plugs into Slack where they, um, invite people, two people from the company, the same company at the same time so that they can get to them. 2 times in the scene
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 45:06 Marc Andreessen All of a sudden, for the first time in 4000 years, we now have both the technology in the form of the internet, and Zoom, and webcams, and remote work, and collaboration tools, and Slack, and all these, you know, amazing, you know,…
B2C2B in Digital Health, a founder's playbook
- ▶ 1:20 Julie Yoo So, you know, you might think about Slack or Zoom or Dropbox or these products that you as an individual user can obviously adopt, but then what these companies are then doing is saying, okay, now there's a critical mass of these users and…
- ▶ 24:52 Andrew Le Because I bought Slack. 2 times in the scene
We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
- ▶ 4:03 David Ulevitch Imagine that you're, you know, you're working on a team project, you're working with your group on something, you're all on a Slack channel, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 David Ulevitch If you think about the big breakout companies in the last few years, Slack or Zoom, they all start with individual teams embracing a product like Slack, then other teams embrace it.
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 35:31 Sanket Pathak On top of that support, like we had Slack support, so you're like, like, I'm gonna give you Slack support, my core team's gonna give you Slack support.
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 32:55 Ryan Caldbeck You know, rewind to the first year Slack was in existence, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 29:34 Joel de la Garza And if you look at the systems, what's even more interesting, a lot of the systems that they grew up building, so the messenger boards, the websites, and IRC, these chat channels, I mean, they, they mimic things that's, it's pretty much,…
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 25:00 Marc Andreessen And so, like, those technologies and then collaboration technologies like Slack and GitHub, right, are becoming really good today, and in 20 years they're going to be, you know, just spectacularly amazing.
a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 5:00 Andrew Chen Things like Dropbox, Asana, Slack.
- ▶ 10:03 Martin Casado I think our experience here with Slack and with GitHub and with many companies is,
- ▶ 20:59 Andrew Chen It would not make sense for a product like Slack if they were like, well, we're going to cap the number of people that can join the channel to five.
- ▶ 27:54 Andrew Chen One of the funny anecdotes at Uber was that for a long time we were officially on HipChat, but there were so many teams across the company that would have their little secret Slack, you know, team chat going because they just didn't want…
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 7:23 Jeff Jordan Slack would be a perfect example of that. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 13:36 Andrew Chen Like for example, Slack is a great, you know, example of this.
a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- ▶ 29:05 Nick Tomaino That's how I got involved, and I spend a lot of time in Reddits and Slacks and, and different, uh, forums. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 32:07 Alex Rampell I would actually argue that Slack is one of many that will help corporate improvements.
a16z Podcast | Messages and Movements in Politics AND Business
- ▶ 13:46 Mark Craney It could be, you know, movement from GitHub users and or a Slack.
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 12:16 Christina Xu You see it in Slack, right? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 12:57 Frank Chen So we went from an in-person change review board infrequently, right, to vet the changes, to continuous change, and hey, let's coordinate over Slack.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 12:50 James Currier So the, the, the most recent good example of that is Slack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:12 Sonal Chokshi Do you remember when Slack, there was this guy who wrote a post about just a brown hand?
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 5:01 Steven Sinofsky I really use the Slack app a lot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:54 Steven Sinofsky There was no slack.
- ▶ 23:51 Benedict Evans And would that be better off as a live SaaS dashboard, or would you be better off doing that in Slack?
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 2:09 Michael Copeland So it happened at Flickr, but then it happened again at Slack, but was that the moment where you're like, wait, people aren't playing our game, but we have this other thing we built to build the game together. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:29 Stuart Butterfield This is one of the avenues by which they conduct their relationships, like their relationship with their significant other, with their children, with their, um, with their siblings, with their business partners, is mediated through these…
- ▶ 9:44 Stuart Butterfield Um, I think we think of ourselves as a business software company, so, um, we value and treasure our customers in the SMB sector just as much as the enterprise sector. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Stuart Butterfield Dropbox, which I can decide by myself, hey, I'm lazy, I don't like to back up, and I want my same files on these two computers, nine bucks a month, great deal, I'm going to do it, but you can't unilaterally decide that you are going to use… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Stuart Butterfield But, you know, we did this, um, survey of 16, we got 1600 and something responses from Slack team owners and administrators, and, um, we asked them a bunch of questions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:01 Stuart Butterfield But that's actually something that, that one of the reasons I think Slack has been successful now is because there is no place where it all comes together. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:21 Michael Copeland Um, Microsoft made an announcement recently with its Office, 2016 product, and they said they had a slack killer. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 9:51 Chris Wanstrath And it's super good, super fast, it sort of unlocks a lot of different workflows, and it assumes that there's a network connection, and that's super fascinating to me personally, and I think to every developer, in that there's almost this…
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 0:51 Michael Copeland Where he digs into all those questions with a panel that includes Roger Dickey, founder and CEO of Gigster, Slack CMO Bill Masaitis, GitHub director of field services Matthew McCullough, and Joel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of Stack…
- ▶ 2:23 Steven Sinofsky Maybe start with Slack, which is sort of well known for being one of those, those kind of products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 Steven Sinofsky So one of the things that's, that, that has really made products like, like Slack and most SAS products, frankly, possible has been, been the rise of open source and, and the way that it's packaged up as a service and integrated and built…
- ▶ 22:41 Roger Dickey Everyone's on Slack, um, so our entire, ah, our entire, you know, development team is in Slack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:02 Steven Sinofsky Like, one of the things that's so fascinating about Slack is this massive community of people building extensions and, and integrations so that there's not another SaaS product. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:05 Bill Macaitis And I think at Slack we're trying to be doing it the same way, where we integrate with over a hundred different, um, business apps. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
- ▶ 14:38 Elizabeth Weil And we got into a conversation about Slack and how it can make you more productive and efficient and teams would be able to collaborate so much better. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts
- ▶ 16:05 Erik Torenberg There are just very few brands that are doing it super well right now, but she pointed to a few that, you know, Slack, for example, and I think she's had a couple others that are doing a great job. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
- ▶ 15:39 Vijay Balasubramaniyan I mean, we see Slack, which has so many millions of users now and, you know, has done that in the last 24 months.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 17:19 Sten Tamkivi A lot and often because you're submitting written tickets to each other, you're sitting in group chats or slack channels and all these places.
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 0:16 Steven Sinofsky And so today we're going to do a product-focused discussion, uh, talking about what's going on with Slack, where it came from, and really try to focus on, on the product and, and what it is. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:20 Steven Sinofsky So, what's your, your longer than a tweet, less than a blog post version of what Slack is today, and where it's heading? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:29 Stuart Butterfield You might just get a little bit of the information and obviously not have the full functionality of that third party application available to you inside of Slack.
- ▶ 18:19 Steven Sinofsky Like if you, so I'm curious how they, how some of your early customers with Slack and how they see it because their, their, their first motivation or their first response is, okay, first I need the finance department, then I need the legal… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 Steven Sinofsky What, the average customer who gets the person, the bottom up deployment, who signs up, what's the first thing people do with Slack where it feels rewarding and it brings in more people? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:35 Steven Sinofsky But, I, you know, kind of just want to ask, in a sense, like, because this space has always had a bunch of products, and they've always had a little trouble getting traction, and yet, Slack is just taking off. 2 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 18:18 Elizabeth Stark So we have this Slack community for lightning. 2 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code
- ▶ 18:12 Preethi Kasireddy Um, to like read the white paper and like, and like try to like get an understanding, go join these like telegram groups and Slack groups.
- ▶ 26:03 unnamed speaker Um, following on the question of regulatory, is, can you guys recommend a public or good public Slack channel or Telegram channel, uh, that we could, you know, be part of listening