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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- ▶ 1:50 Jon Noronha This was obviously peak pandemic, and it was this period when we saw all these companies like, say, Zoom and Loom and Slack really blowing up because people were taking a new approach to work.
- ▶ 10:20 Jon Noronha So your notions, your slacks, your looms, it was actually difficult to pin down where their early fit had come from. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:57 Jon Noronha I'm thinking again about these companies that inspire us, like a Slack or a Notion or a Canva.
Why great leaders make themselves obsolete | Eric Sager (COO, Plaid)
- ▶ 43:56 Eric Sager Um, and you can almost hear them slacking their manager in the background, you know, like, but I think that's a feature, right?
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 36:24 Paul Copplestone Superpower because our attrition is extremely low, but the leaning into the async, um, culture has helped because everything's written, everything's recorded, everything's captured in Slack or Notion, or one of our sales meetings is…
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 12:34 Graham Moreno Is like a lot in Slack, a lot over like text.
- ▶ 14:26 Graham Moreno And I think if you took a great enterprise seller that does all of those things naturally, it might take an adjustment to like being in Slack all the time or being in text communication as much as we tend to be. 2 times in the scene
AI killed the product roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)
- ▶ 36:52 Diya Jolly But yes, I am notorious at being awful at email and Slack, like awful.
The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- ▶ 47:47 Jeremy Epling So, I would say, try to start off my day with, like, two to three hours of either I'm catching up on docs or slack or I'm writing something or I'm, like, designing something or, like, leaving feedback.
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 46:07 Zack Kanter And you see all these companies getting built around you at the time, you know, maybe I remember Slack being built at the time and you're like, well, Slack doesn't really have any of these characteristics that these guys are talking about. 9 times in the scene
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
- ▶ 26:49 Jake Stauch Uh, we're going to send this manager a Slack message.
- ▶ 38:13 Jake Stauch Uh, you know, we ping somebody for, uh, their Okta one-time password, and then they enter it into Slack, and then they get this, uh, alert that goes into their Slack message, and it's so cool to see somebody do something with your product…
- ▶ 59:00 Jake Stauch At Verkata we had a Slack channel called Feature Garage, and that's basically how it was treated as sales reps would jump a bunch of features there and no one would ever look at it.
- ▶ 1:01:43 Jake Stauch It's more, you have to be in a Slack channel with a customer.
The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
- ▶ 23:14 Gorkem Yurtseven But if you, if you get a sense, like this thing is good, then we drop whatever and try, like, usually we open on Slack, we open a huddle, eight, nine people get in there.
- ▶ 35:30 Gorkem Yurtseven We have, I don't know, 500 different Slack channels with all the engineers from companies we work with. 2 times in the scene
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 41:19 Abhinav Asthana And these problems are similar to, I would say a Slack or a Figma, but very distinct because we are treating with a much harder abstraction to understand.
- ▶ 56:43 Abhinav Asthana I heard Stuart Butterfield from Slack say it at a conference that, you know, if the money is available on good terms, you just take it.
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 29:57 Imad Akhund There was no Slack, no Stripe, no Gusto.
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 24:33 Ankur Goyal I just created a shared Slack channel.
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:11:10 Karri Saarinen So I saw some companies like Slack, for example, I feel like they always had like a good, like a brand from the beginning and it's kind of engaged people. 2 times in the scene
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
- ▶ 14:04 Wes Kao We are often back to back jumping from one meeting into the next and then answering Slack messages in between. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:18 Wes Kao So that was an example of something where the beginning of that actually came from a question from a student in my course, because I'd shared a screenshot of a Slack message that was a little bit longer, multiple paragraphs and stuff, and… 2 times in the scene
How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
- ▶ 25:23 Adit Abraham We have Slack channels with almost every customer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:56 Adit Abraham It's a matter of learning where the product needs to be for people outside of the voices we already hear in Slack.
- ▶ 55:03 Adit Abraham The way that we approach product building is we have a channel on Slack called Daily Updates where everybody will post whatever's working well or isn't.
- ▶ 55:48 Adit Abraham This applies to everyone at the company, not just me, because I mentioned that we have Slack channels with everyone, so we'll get requests and tickets.
1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
- ▶ 30:44 Jeff Shiner Slack would be one that I, that I really enjoy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:44 Jeff Shiner If you, you know, you get a slack or whatever that comes in, you have to address.
Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
- ▶ 27:28 Varun Anand So you had to join our Slack community to get help. 3 times in the scene
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 24:14 unnamed speaker We had this Slack group. 3 times in the scene
Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO That's Led Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 39:00 Brett Berson So they were at Slack and they were at this company and they were, and it's such a different experience.
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- ▶ 45:55 unnamed speaker Post an experiment in Slack and get everyone to vote on which one they think is going to be the winner and let the founder and the head of products and the head of growth be very public about their bets.
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO
- ▶ 29:35 Eoghan McCabe I looked at Zoom and Slack, and also Salesforce, and they have the three different ways.
How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
- ▶ 26:39 Matt MacInnis We actually have, Parker and I have traded, you know, slacks on like crazy expense of the month.
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 26:30 Dennis Pilarinos They have it in Slack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:57 Dennis Pilarinos And he was talking about adjusting Slack's pricing.
- ▶ 57:54 Dennis Pilarinos I got to spend some time with Stuart when we were building BuddyBuild, and seeing how thoughtful and deliberate he was in building Slack is kind of a bystander there, and like some of the insights, I think that's been remarkable.
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
- ▶ 16:35 May Habib And then, you know, our competitive channel in Slack, nobody shares shit that we know we all saw.
- ▶ 29:18 May Habib You know, when we're talking to a customer, the first thing I pull up in Slack, we've got a command for it, is literally their, you know, their activity levels of 100,000 of users.
A customer success masterclass | How to build and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)
- ▶ 22:58 Stephanie Berner If it's through a Slack channel, or through, if it's like an actual support system, you need a systematic way of collecting that customer feedback that's not just an email to a CSM.
The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
- ▶ 24:20 Michael Lopp Why doesn't Slack have the ability to block people? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:52 Michael Lopp You have learned everything that you're going to learn here at Slack.
- ▶ 54:33 Michael Lopp Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:29 Michael Lopp So would you recognize me VP of Pinterest versus VP of Slack? 3 times in the scene
A product-market-fit masterclass | Kareem Amin (Clay)
- ▶ 30:21 Kareem Amin So anyone that would sign up to Clay, we would say, join our Slack channel, and then we would only talk to them in Slack in public. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:10 Todd Jackson Do you think every founder should, you know, every founder who has a couple hundred customers should do this and do all of their support and community in Slack?
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 39:04 Kyle Parrish I either hit the share button, copy pasted the URL, dropped it in Slack, dropped it in our Zoom call.
- ▶ 42:43 Kyle Parrish I think it was a big learning for companies like Slack, and they've even said publicly, like a lot of blueprint of kind of the PLG motion, but hunkering down and being like, we are a B to B company.
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- ▶ 4:58 Oliver Jay They see Slack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 Oliver Jay And, and Slack is similar, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:23 Oliver Jay We didn't have the dynamic that Dropbox and Slack had where you have 30% of a company using it, especially when you go outside of the big tech companies.
- ▶ 1:00:56 unnamed speaker And Jira had a similar impact that Slack had bottoms up, which is it quietly and organically crept into lots of organizations.
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- ▶ 1:06:54 Jack Krawczyk Other companies might use Slack for that sort of purpose, but every time there's something interesting, we share that
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
- ▶ 1:07:15 Will Larson The latter, I do think talking things through live when people do have the shared like context, they just disagree is incredibly valuable and it's almost impossible to kind of like get to the end of these things on like a chat on Slack or…
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
- ▶ 0:16 Ashley Kramer He sends out a slack to the entire company of the sentiment, the overall themes and sentiment from investors.
- ▶ 47:18 Ashley Kramer He sends out a slack to the entire company of the sentiment, the overall themes and sentiment from investors.
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- ▶ 18:11 unnamed speaker And so like, that's the philosophy that we have is like, if someone wants me to help them write SQL, or like, I don't know, debug something in Excel, like I'll go do something I do support for other people's products in Slack, because I…
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- ▶ 7:47 Dan Siroker And it turns out it was a Slack message or a text message, or you saw a tweet.
A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
- ▶ 48:15 Ryan Glasgow And I think if it actually was integrated into your Slack or into your email or into your work, I think people might feel like they're losing control because all of a sudden it's in that application with them.
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
- ▶ 49:56 Kellan Elliott-McCrea I've got an end of the week status update that I used to do an email and now I do a Slack and all this other stuff.
The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- ▶ 7:12 Alex Kracov We had a slack community, which we can get into.
- ▶ 10:55 Alex Kracov And a lot of what we did was, um, using the campaign object in Salesforce, we would take, um, like lists, right, of the people who are in our Slack community, let's say, upload it into Salesforce, you know, either once every week or…
- ▶ 25:59 Alex Kracov It started with a Slack community and that's, you know, something I'm not doing now at docs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:06 Brett Berson When you think about these specific campaigns or activities, do you think they have a life in the sense of there are so many things that you did five or six years ago or six plus years ago now, whether it be the way you thought about… 3 times in the scene
Lessons from Loom on product strategy and organizational leadership | Anique Drumright (COO at Loom)
- ▶ 52:27 Anique Drumright I have a terrible habit at Slack. 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
- ▶ 1:26 Brett Berson For today's episode of In-Depth, I'm thrilled to be joined by Noah Weiss, Chief Product Officer at Slack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:50 Noah Desai Weiss One of the things that we talked a lot about at Slack, which is very in contrast to my early days at Google, is about not being data driven with every decision that you make. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 Noah Desai Weiss I think at Slack, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:22 Noah Desai Weiss I think for us, one of the biggest challenges in that Slack is really this horizontal product, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 Noah Desai Weiss You know, the last thing I would say is we talk a lot about the vibe of a team at Slack.
- ▶ 21:49 Noah Desai Weiss But I think one of the things, certainly at Slack, that we have always done from the very early days is, you know, a lot of people talk about being customer obsessed. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:06 Brett Berson Have caused you to update your thinking or change the way that you're doing things, not in like a, we're integrating Slack into Salesforce go to market or any of that type of stuff, more like the way that they build and distribute software. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:35 Noah Desai Weiss There's still a head of marketing for Slack, but they actually report functionally into Salesforce. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:24 Noah Desai Weiss If we're reviewing a design, we'll often have people when I'm sharing like a clip, which is recording in Slack where you can narrow it over a screen share. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:00 Noah Desai Weiss Thinking about the teams at Slack that look like this.
- ▶ 44:03 Noah Desai Weiss I mean, we talked about this at Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:08 Brett Berson If that's sort of the Google allocation, even if you don't have an explicit allocation, what would you say it is for Slack?
- ▶ 55:30 Brett Berson In this theme of decision making and operating, I'm super curious given you've been at Slack for almost eight years. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:24 Noah Desai Weiss Start increasing our product velocity in new areas and pushing the boundaries of what Slack could be moving to adjacencies like huddles and clips and connect and canvas to expand the capabilities of the product and expand what our…
- ▶ 1:06:27 Noah Desai Weiss I mean, this is what it was at Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:59 Noah Desai Weiss And also it's probably the most fraught, you know, thinking back to Foursquare and obviously Slack, both that had product founders, CEOs, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:55 Noah Desai Weiss I find it so, so helpful to have that small network of people inside Slack, where I can rely on them as trusted sounding boards, where we have enough trust that they can also tell me they're like, that's a really bad idea. 2 times in the scene
Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org and tactical management advice | Jack Altman (Lattice)
- ▶ 25:06 Jack Altman You can just chatter in Slack, and you can do really casual stuff, or you have conversations out in the open.