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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
- ▶ 58:48 Laura Modi We were on a Zoom call and my head of regulatory sends me a Slack
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
Advice Line with Kenneth Cole
- ▶ 16:02 unnamed speaker Point it at a folder on your computer, or connect tools like Google Drive, Gmail, and Slack.
Advice Line with Ronnen Harary of Spin Master/PAW Patrol
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- ▶ 7:23 Tobias Lütke There was no Slack.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- ▶ 22:23 unnamed speaker Alright, so remotely sounds fine today, like in the era of Zoom and Slack and stuff, but how did you do that in 2004?
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International
- ▶ 36:12 Chet Pipkin So what Slack does is gets people inside of the organization to use it, and then people inside of the org are the ones that are fighting and clamoring for the org to adopt it. 2 times in the scene
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
Figma: Dylan Field
- ▶ 58:41 Dylan Field Or I remember one day Slack went down and people were, you know, typing in text boxes in Figma for their Slack 2 times in the scene
Hero Cosmetics: Ju Rhyu and Dwight Lee
- ▶ 58:49 Dwight Lee But we were on Slack and Zoom, I mean, just all day long.
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
- ▶ 35:08 Nuseir Yassin Like Slack. 2 times in the scene
Etsy: Rob Kalin
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
- ▶ 41:51 Nuseir Yassin Like Slack. 2 times in the scene
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 7:25 Matt Mullenweg So it was kind of like a, think of it like a text-based Slack.
Discord: Jason Citron
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 41:56 Otis Chandler We used Skype, and we used IRC chat boards, which are kind of like an early version of Slack, and Michael was up in San Francisco, our first engineer, and,
KAYAK: Paul English
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth
- ▶ 3:17 Guy Raz Slack and Airbnb and, you know, these, these huge Uber, I mean, these Uber would come later, but these huge companies that we talk about now were really kind of beginning to, um, to cut, to kind of crystallize.
- ▶ 37:13 Paul Davison And we had a Slack integration set up.
- ▶ 49:39 Guy Raz Slack's working on something.
How I Built Resilience: Lindsay Peoples Wagner of The Cut
- ▶ 10:45 Lindsay Peoples Wagner Your mind just continues to go, and so even in the things that I do for my enjoyment time are usually things that are very separate from my job, so a lot of people who would, if they follow me on social media, will know I really love to…
- ▶ 21:37 Lindsay Peoples Wagner Like, it's Slack, email, text, social media, all these things.
Food52: Amanda Hesser
How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- ▶ 45:53 Mike Cannon-Brookes So our viral effect is not like a Facebook or a Slack or a Calendly.
Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill
Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
Dropbox: Drew Houston
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
How I Built Resilience: Bert and John Jacobs of Life is Good
- ▶ 25:30 John Jacobs And collaborating with each other in ways Bert and I don't even understand, like Slack, for example.
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
How I Built Resilience: Songe LaRon of Squire
- ▶ 16:08 Songe LaRon So we were already used to collaborating, uh, on, on, on Zoom, uh, you know, and communicating on Slack.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Sarah LaFleur
- ▶ 8:05 Sarah LaFleur Um, one of the first things we did was we launched a Slack channel to our, um, customers, our MM community, um, 3 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Live with Tobias Lütke and Jon Stein
- ▶ 1:16 Tobias Lütke Like, we have Slack, which is taking over the role of the hallways of the office.
- ▶ 6:10 Guy Raz I mean, Slack, Venmo, I mean, all these brands that we used.
- ▶ 15:16 Tobias Lütke And just talking about this, and then putting this into the right Slack channel, it's not as good, because it's not as fun, because it's the interactivity is missing.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
- ▶ 4:24 Guy Raz Um, for, for Slack, it's been the reverse. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 Guy Raz I mean, obviously, Slack is a collaboration tool, but having that face-to-face interaction, you know, I think for most of us, we think of it as a crucial part of collaborating. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:03 Guy Raz That's an excerpt from my conversation with Stuart Butterfield, the co-founder of Slack and Flickr.
Fitbit: James Park
How I Built Resilience: Live with Simon Sinek
How I Built Resilience: Live with David Neeleman and Tristan Walker
- ▶ 6:31 Tristan Walker Thank goodness for things like, you know, Slack and text message, among other things, right?
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 0:26 Guy Raz About seven years ago, out of the ashes of a failed video game, Stuart launched Slack, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 Stewart Butterfield Uh, to work on Slack.
- ▶ 12:10 Stewart Butterfield I think we still face that as a, as a major challenge for Slack, because it's like a brand new category of software that doesn't really replace anything specific that you were using before.
- ▶ 12:43 Guy Raz And Slack is easy to explain. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Guy Raz That's Stuart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr and founder of Slack.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Sara Blakely Of Spanx
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
- ▶ 50:33 Alex Blumberg People were posting a Slack channel, all these very, very first pictures of the very, very first office in the very, very first months of that first office.
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- ▶ 0:16 Guy Raz You'll be able to hear from and probably even meet founders from companies like Away, Slack, Instagram, Spanx, JetBlue, Clif Bar, Jenny's Splendid Ice Cream.
- ▶ 9:21 Tobias Lütke There was no Slack.
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison
Zappos: Tony Hsieh (2017)
Bonobos: Andy Dunn
Airbnb's Joe Gebbia At The HIBT Summit
Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
- ▶ 39:35 Emily Weiss So, you know, we've put a thousand of our top customers in a Slack channel who exchange over 10,000 messages a week.
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 1:20 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Stuart Butterfield perfected the art of the pivot by turning a failed online game company into Slack, a messaging program now valued at over five billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Guy Raz When we come back, how Stewart's second failure to build an online game had a silver lining, and how the idea for Slack was hiding in plain sight.
- ▶ 34:50 Stewart Butterfield And I think that making sure everyone got hired generated an enormous amount of goodwill, like, in the community at large, and, um, I think that was very helpful for us down the road, um, when we started Slack, and people were more willing…
- ▶ 37:34 Stewart Butterfield It's funny, um, we have these conversations, and we had them in our internal communication tool, the thing that predated Slack, um, and so there's timestamps. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:08 Guy Raz So you, so at this point, at the end of 2012, was Slack, would you, did you guys call it Slack? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:32 Stewart Butterfield And the really hard part of it was, unlike most software, you can't unilaterally decide to use Slack with your colleagues. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 Stewart Butterfield Um, and we also told all the people who had been using it for free, like, hey, the grace, you know, this, this is, now you're gonna have to start paying. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:56 Stewart Butterfield It was a pretty mad scramble, you know, and that year, um, we went from maybe 10 or 11, I can't, we hired a couple people, at most 12 employees, up to about 40, 50, we might have ended that year at 80 people, and it was breakneck, like we… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:54 Stewart Butterfield You know, it feels like all of the years of, like, sweat and toil and sacrifice, all of the years pressing on with a game, you know, like, kind of failure after failure, have been, you know, more than rewarded, like, rewarded dozens of… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:34 Guy Raz And then when you realized it wasn't going to work, you shifted first to Flickr and then to Slack. 4 times in the scene
Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018)
- ▶ 39:21 Troy Carter Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, um, really great companies that we're proud of.
Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter
- ▶ 38:58 Troy Carter Yeah, yeah, Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, um, really great companies that we're proud of.