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Slack sold $1M in software within three weeks of its official launch
“Within maybe two weeks or three weeks of launching that officially, we had sold a million bucks worth of slack.”
Butterfield: Slack saw massive surges across every metric during COVID onset
“In the early stages of this, yes, we saw a huge increase in the number of new teams being created, which is kind of people signing up for Slack in the first place, converting to paid status, the customers who are already paid, adding more users the people who …”
Slack grew between 5% and 10% every single week in 2014
“And, you know, at that same period, we're still growing, like, somewhere between five and 10% a week.”
Slack.com was registered in 1993 by an engineer hosting cat pictures
“Slack, speaking of .com registrations, was registered by this guy in 1993. He lives in somewhere in the Midwest, I think Wisconsin, who is an electrical engineer, and there's no more iconic internet thing than this. He had it as a website with pictures of his …”
Butterfield asked early candidates: 3x17, three African countries, French Revolution century
“By the way, in the early days when Stuart was interviewing job candidates for the company, he would always ask three questions. The first one, what's three times 17? The second one, name three countries in Africa? And the third question, in which century was t…”