Flickr, every mention

Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 · 28 mentions

• ▶ 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.