Tiny Speck
5 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 30, 2018 by Stewart Butterfield · across every show →
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Jul 30, 2018
Butterfield ensured all 37 laid-off Glitch employees secured new jobs
“By the end of that process, we had gotten, you know, every single person who worked there who was getting laid off, and there was like, 37 of them, I believe. Every single one of them got another job, and in most cases, they got a better job than the one that …”
Jul 30, 2018 bearish
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
Jan 30, 2020
Only 8 of 45 Glitch employees stayed to build Slack
“So there's 45 people at the company, and eight of them were going to stay on to work on Slack. So for the other 37 people, we did kind of career coaching. We wrote reference letters. We set up interviews for them. We ended up getting everyone a job”