Slack, every mention
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every year 2018 anyone Guy Raz 62Stewart Butterfield 34Tobias Lütke 4Nuseir Yassin 4Sarah LaFleur 3Troy Carter 2Lindsay Peoples Wagner 2Dylan Field 2Chet Pipkin 2Andy Dunn 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
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.