Slack, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
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