Slack
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2024 by Ben Gilbert · said 207 times in 75 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Ben Gilbert (169), David Rosenthal (29), Jason Calacanis (5), Packy McCormick (2), Brendan Eich (2)
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2026 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
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2025 34 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
- Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- TSMC · Acquired
- Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
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2024 29 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- Chase Center + Summer Update (Audio) · Acquired
- IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
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2023 39 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
- Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired
- Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- Costco (Audio) · Acquired
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2022 73 mentions in 25 episodes 3 per episode
- Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- Qualcomm · Acquired
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 20 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
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Everything said about Slack, oldest first
Apr 22, 2024 negative
Microsoft pioneered product-led enterprise growth decades before SaaS startups
“Everyone loves to talk about product-led growth, and how it's this new thing in the late twenty-tens, and how Slack, and Atlassian, and Trello, everyone figured out PLG in this bottoms-up, workforce-adopted way, rather than selling to procurement, or IT, or th…”
Oct 28, 2024
AOL Instant Messenger Originated as a Rogue Enterprise Chat Project
“Yeah, so it was a couple engineers that just went off and built this, almost against the wishes of management. It was not originally intended to really be for social use or for kids at all. It was more like the idea they had was it was going to be kind of like…”