Slack

9 statements across 9 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2022 by Jonathan Haidt · said 74 times in 38 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Everything said about Slack, oldest first

Jul 21, 2022 negative
Opinion
Haidt: Twitter is the worst platform for reputational attacks and social shaming
“Twitter in particular, Twitter is the worst here, but it's also on Facebook and Slack and other channels.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 3:38 Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Balmain lost laptop, Slack, and Gmail access an hour after layoff email
“Within the email kind of said, yeah, there's good, there's gonna be this huge reduction in, in head count. You will, if you're affected, you'll get an email to your personal email. And if not, you'll get something to your work email. And it was within an hour …”
Simon Balmain Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 2:24 Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain
Nov 27, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Benioff: Klarna remains a major Salesforce customer and still uses Slack
“There are big customer of ours, actually, and they use Slack.”
Marc Benioff Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 29:40 Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
Dec 11, 2024 positive
Insight
Wang: Ideal AI agents must passively observe all digital communication flows
“An ideal AI agent is one that, that I think is observing and naturally in all the sort of like core flows of information and core flows of context that you are in digitally. So, you know, it's in all your Slack threads. It's only your email threads that like, …”
Alexandr Wang Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 26:11 AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
Oct 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Krieger: AI agents will soon integrate directly into Slack and Teams
“These entities, these agents are going to start showing up in all places where you do work, whether that's your Slack or your Teams, for example.”
Mike Krieger Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 10:12 Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
ClickUp Chat growth accelerated after Slack restricted third-party data access
“Our team chat product, which is our fastest growing product by far. And it's accelerated the growth ever since, since Slack did that.”
Zeb Evans Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 25:15 How Business Software Transforms In The Age Of AI — With Zeb Evans
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Ground-up AI-native enterprise apps will defeat incumbents bolting on features
“There's this whole debate, like, within the software, especially enterprise software world, like, yeah, do you build from the ground up in completely AI native apps, or are these kind of incumbents going to be able to add on AI? I don't think they will, and we…”
Ranjan Roy Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 16:37 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
Jun 26, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: OpenAI operates almost entirely on Slack rather than email
“Within OpenAI, we basically have the same level of penetration now and usage of Slack. Right. It's like everyone in opening eyes, like an entirely slack based company. We do not use email for the most part.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:11:06 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI employees barely use email, preferring Slack and Codex
“Within OpenAI, we basically have the same level of penetration now and usage of slack. Right. It's like everyone in opening eyes like an entirely slack based company. We do not use email for the most part. It's like really like if you're not on slack, you're n…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 8:52 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
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