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Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants Aug 17, 2026 · 1 mention

Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:32 Guy Raz Point it at a folder on your computer, or connect tools like Google Drive, Gmail, and Slack.

Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox Jul 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:57 Guy Raz Point it at a folder on your computer, or connect tools like Google Drive, Gmail, and Slack.

Advice Line with Kenneth Cole Jul 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jul 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:01 Guy Raz Point it at a folder on your computer, or connect tools like Google Drive, Gmail, and Slack.

Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019) Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020) Dec 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Nov 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:14 Guy Raz It's going to be slow, but then fast, which is they, I mean, I wonder if you can build a closed community on Slack or Circle or one of these places, because they, these are your ambassadors.

Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International Nov 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:30 Guy Raz I mean, when you are in San Francisco, I mean, this is like, you know, that, that time, I mean, it's like Uber is starting to make waves, and obviously Airbnb is already, you know, really starting to have an impact, and Slack is, is coming…

Figma: Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Dec 30, 2024 · 1 mention

Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit Sep 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:08 Guy Raz And you click it, you know, I mean, this is the story of Slack or Dropbox or, you know, um, these other viral products, which is in order to use Dropbox, you got to set up a Dropbox.

Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel Jan 4, 2024 · 2 mentions

Etsy: Rob Kalin Oct 30, 2023 · 1 mention

HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

Wirecutter: Brian Lam Oct 10, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:37 Guy Raz I'm trying to figure out how you did it then, without Zoom and Slack and all that stuff that makes it so much easier now. 2 times in the scene

Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019) Apr 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:35 Andy Dunn Well, that's not, that wasn't the approach ultimately because people, you know, the quote unquote water cooler talk was jamming, and then there were messages on Slack saying this is a catastrophe for the brand with no context.

WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 · 1 mention

Discord: Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:11 Guy Raz And like Zoom and Slack, Discord grew at a massive rate during the pandemic because for millions of people, it was a way to socialize.
  • ▶ 49:15 Guy Raz Slack was out there and there were other ways to communicate.
  • ▶ 55:41 Guy Raz It's just like Slack.

Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler Feb 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Sep 27, 2021 · 1 mention

Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant Aug 19, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:27 Guy Raz And, and, and we, we try to frame it as an on-ramp to success, you know, whether it's Robert Refkin or Stuart Butterfield failing with his games company and pivoting into Slack, which was really not the plan.

Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018) May 10, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:30 Guy Raz Things that we take for granted, like email or instant messaging or Slack, there was no infrastructure to make these things work

Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth May 6, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 15, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 5, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:14 Guy Raz We know that, that we now know that, like, I mean, Airbnb and Slack and all these companies started around that time.

How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew Mar 4, 2021 · 1 mention

Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar Feb 8, 2021 · 1 mention

Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill Dec 14, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:24:44 Guy Raz This year has been a challenging year for everybody, but for certain industries, it's worked out well, let's say the, from, from an economic standpoint, like if you're Netflix, it's worked out pretty well, and if you're Slack and Zoom, um,…

Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark Dec 7, 2020 · 1 mention

Dropbox: Drew Houston Nov 9, 2020 · 2 mentions

Khan Academy: Sal Khan Sep 21, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:53 Guy Raz Alright, so remotely sounds fine today, like in the era of Zoom and Slack and stuff, but how did you do that in 2004?

How I Built Resilience: Bert and John Jacobs of Life is Good Sep 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Aug 3, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:40 Guy Raz We are in the middle of the most trying time for every business in the world, unless you're Zoom or Slack.

How I Built Resilience: Songe LaRon of Squire Jul 23, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 23, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 16, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 9, 2020 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Apr 27, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:34 Guy Raz This week, I'll be talking to Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger, the founders of Allbirds, and also to Stuart Butterfield, the founder of Slack.

How I Built Resilience: Live with Simon Sinek Apr 23, 2020 · 1 mention

How I Built Resilience: Live with David Neeleman and Tristan Walker Apr 16, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Jan 30, 2020 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Dec 5, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:22 Guy Raz People like Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom of Instagram, Jen Rubio of Away, Stuart Butterfield of Slack, and many, many others.

Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Aug 5, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 27, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:34 Guy Raz You're going to be able to hear from and probably even meet some of the greatest living founders and entrepreneurs in the world, including Sarah Blakely of Spanx, Stuart Butterfield of Slack, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger of Instagram,…

Zappos: Tony Hsieh (2017) May 20, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:34 Guy Raz You're going to be able to hear from and probably even meet some of the greatest living founders and entrepreneurs in the world, including Sarah Blakely of Spanx, Stuart Butterfield of Slack, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger of Instagram,…

Bonobos: Andy Dunn Jan 21, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:15 Andy Dunn Well, that's not, that wasn't the approach ultimately, because people, you know, the quote unquote water cooler talk was jamming, and then there were messages on Slack saying, this is, this is a catastrophe for the brand.

Airbnb's Joe Gebbia At The HIBT Summit Dec 6, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:11 Guy Raz I mean, so we, we've done an episode with, about Slack, Stuart Butterfield, who's actually here in the audience, and, um, really the story of Slack is a story of a completely different idea. 2 times in the scene

Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss Nov 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Oct 1, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:22 Guy Raz Things that we take for granted, like email or instant messaging or Slack, there was no infrastructure to make these things work

Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 · 43 mentions

  • ▶ 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) May 28, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 May 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:58 Troy Carter Yeah, yeah, Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, um, really great companies that we're proud of.
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