Stewart Butterfield
29 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 30, 2018 by Stewart Butterfield · said 18 times in 13 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2023 4 mentions in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2019 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jul 30, 2018 neutral
Jul 30, 2018
Organizational alignment dictates success more than an individual leader's strategic decisions
“What I found is what matters is performance at the level of the organization. Cause to the degree that everyone's pushing in the same direction, you're able to achieve something. If people are pushing in opposite directions, then, you know, you can put as much…”
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 bearish
Jul 30, 2018 negative
Butterfield: Working with a spouse during an early startup is uniquely stressful
“It's pretty challenging to work with your spouse, especially in the early days of a startup, so this is going back many years now, when we first started working on Flickr, like, out of money, and it's not just the business is out of money, it's like, we're out…”
Jul 30, 2018 negative
Email fundamentally cuts new employees off from historical company knowledge
“In email, if you join a company that has been around for 30 years and has been using email since its inception, You get an empty inbox. You're completely cut off from the whole history of what's happened before you got there. And almost all of the email, like,…”
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018
GradFinder was acquired in late 2000 by a dot-com that soon folded
“By one of, like, these dot-coms that had raised a ton of money, like, I don't know, a hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't even remember what it was called now. And this is like the last gasp, so this is the end of the year 2000. And they ended up going …”
Jul 30, 2018
Butterfield pitched early Slack investors on a $1B valuation target
“We went in there and told them our plan and, you know our grand ambition, which was, hey, we believe that there's, you know, we could one day get to a hundred million dollars in revenue with this business and thereby be a billion dollar business.”
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 negative
Jul 30, 2018 neutral
Jul 30, 2018 neutral
Jul 30, 2018 positive
Jul 30, 2018
Butterfield's three tiers of wealth: debt-free, ignoring menus, ignoring vacation costs
“I really feel like there's kind of, there's three levels of wealth in the world. The first level is, I'm not stressed out about debt. Like, people who no longer worry about their credit card bills or their student loans, that's like level one of wealth. Yeah. …”
Jul 30, 2018 positive
Butterfield plans to donate almost all of his wealth
“I'm just gonna give almost all of it away, because I, there's no, I don't get any additional happiness in spending it, and there's a lot of suffering in the world, and there's a lot of inequality, and I think that's a place where, not just me, but the whole co…”
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 positive
Investors treated the Slack pivot like buying another lottery ticket
“None of them wanted their money back, and not for altruistic reasons, but we had already spent two-thirds of it, so their options were, like, we can get back a third of what we gave you, or they can buy one more lottery ticket and say, keep the money we'll kee…”
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018
Butterfield initially lost a team vote to pivot to Flickr
“So we had this vote. I lost you know, or Flickr lost in game one, so that I had to call Eric on the side and, like, you know, do some, what I imagine happens in the Senate, some kind of, like, horse trading to convince him to change his vote. And that worked, …”
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 positive
Jan 30, 2020
May 9, 2020 positive
May 9, 2020 neutral
Butterfield: Teams Shifting from In-Person Meetings Should Over-Invest in Written Communication
“I think if you didn't have to rely on it before, if you were really reliant on in-person meetings to kind of get work done or get decisions made yeah, over invest in, in written communication and experiment with video tools to find the ones that work.”
May 9, 2020 positive
May 9, 2020
Butterfield: Leaders must constantly reinforce plans because humans hate uncertainty
“People need to be reminded what's important more often. People need to be reassured. People need to be clear that they understand the plan because human beings hate Uncertainty. I mean, just historically, it's almost like it's an evolutionary instinct, and you…”
May 9, 2020
Butterfield: Channeling energy to help in a crisis calms personal anxiety
“In times of crisis like this, I think people have a really strong instinct to help. And if there's a place for you to put that energy it's not just productive and effective. It's also kind of spiritually calming. You're less anxious if you're, if you feel like…”