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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 …”
Stewart Butterfield May 9, 2020 ▶ 4:38 How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
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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.”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 47:44 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Assertion Supported
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…”
Guy Raz Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 56:50 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
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