Flickr, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Guy Raz 21Stewart Butterfield 14Matt Mullenweg 1Emmett Shear 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Flickr comes up
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 22:52 Emmett Shear And, uh, the idea we brought to him was, we were going to make a service that lets you print a blog or a, you know, uh, a Flickr website as a coffee table book, which was a terrible idea.
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 8:42 Matt Mullenweg Well, I used some open source software called Gallery, and it was a PHP script that would allow pre-Flickr, pre-Facebook, pre-anything to post photos and have galleries online.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 0:45 Guy Raz He wound up shutting that one down too, but out of that failure, he was able to launch a photo sharing site called Flickr, which he sold just a year later for around twenty million dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz There was a point, and you talk about this in the podcast, where you had to decide whether to drop all of this work on this computer game, like, more than a year, I think two years, of work on this game and pivot to the photo sharing site,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33 Guy Raz So you, you guys end up selling Flickr to Yahoo, and you described yourself, um, as briefly internet famous, um, you actually were like on the cover of Newsweek magazine with, with some other people at one point, um, which I'm assuming got…
- ▶ 12:04 Stewart Butterfield With Flickr, I think we had a real disadvantage, because we never really explained what it was or what it was for.
- ▶ 15:15 Guy Raz That's Stuart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr and founder of Slack.
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 2:57 Guy Raz The first one was called Flickr. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 Stewart Butterfield How complex this was gonna be, and, um, we just realized we're never gonna be able to finish it, like, for the amount of money we raised, and we were desperate for something else that, um, that we could complete in a shorter amount of…
- ▶ 12:42 Guy Raz So then you decide, I mean, it leads you to starting up Flickr, which is like a photo sharing website. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 Stewart Butterfield Yeah, whether to, to, um, switch our efforts to, to Flickr and to really pursue that instead of the game, and then I lost. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 unnamed speaker So you guys, uh, so it's like, 2004, you put Flickr out there, and, and people who were on the internet were like, cool, a place to, to put our photos up online? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:51 Stewart Butterfield But it was really, yeah, Flickr was like a really singular thing, um, in the internet at that time.
- ▶ 22:45 Stewart Butterfield Something like web two point O from flicker to my space, something, something. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:40 Stewart Butterfield So it was just like, you know, almost all my energy went into things other than making Flickr a great product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:48 Stewart Butterfield Um, we had only recently had a kid, and we didn't work together that closely at Yahoo, but it's, um, pretty challenging to, to work with your spouse, especially in the early days of a startup, so this is going back many years now, when we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:20 Guy Raz So you had a track record with Flickr.
- ▶ 38:00 Stewart Butterfield So it was, um, myself and the other three co-founders, so that's four of us, and then there's four employees that we kept, um, one of whom we had worked with back in the Flickr days, who's a back-end programmer, um, IOS, a mobile engineer,…
- ▶ 54:34 Guy Raz And then when you realized it wasn't going to work, you shifted first to Flickr and then to Slack.