Slack
10 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Nov 24, 2020 by Roger Martin · said 50 times in 29 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shane Parrish (23), Chris Cordell (5), Sarah Jones Simmer (3), Josh Wolfe (3), Mark Pincus (2), Kaz Nejatian (2), Winston Weinberg (1), Shreyas Doshi (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- Barry Diller: Building IAC
- How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2020 16 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2016 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Slack, oldest first
Nov 24, 2020
Martin: CEOs must build operational slack or efficiency will kill organizations
“Part of the CEO's job is to create enough of that discretion. So that they can do those things, right? That that they know are going to be in the interest longterm, like in your case, building up some slack, you know, for the bad times because if they don't bu…”
Dec 22, 2020 positive
Slack sent software engineers on sales calls to build cross-functional empathy
“Another thing that we did at Slack is sending engineers on sales calls.
And once people understand the value, like, I don't want to go into a, you know, a huge client meeting that's in necessarily in a industry necessarily I don't know much about and just
Just…”
Dec 22, 2020 positive
Dec 22, 2020
Startups crossing major headcount thresholds must pause to digest new hires
“When you go from one stage to another, so let's say, you know, 50 to one 51 50 to 303 to five, we would refer to it as a snake eating a horse, I think, or a snake eating a goat, I believe, and you're taking this big thing on, and you just have to sit for a bit…”
Dec 22, 2020 positive
Twitter and Slack built internal flashcard games to memorize employee names
“At both Twitter and Slack, there were tools that were put into place, internal tools, where it was kind of like a game-like mechanism, where you could see a picture of two employees, and you have to, like, guess, you know, this name is the name of which employ…”
Feb 16, 2021 positive
Eyal: Tech distraction is not users' fault, but it is their responsibility
“You didn't invent Facebook. You didn't invent Twitter or Slack or any of these tech companies. You didn't invent that stuff. It's not your fault. But lots of things in life are not your fault, but they are still your responsibility. And so the price of progres…”
Jun 15, 2021 bullish
Tavel: Next-Gen Remote-Native Tools Will Transform Work Beyond Zoom and Slack
“And in a way, like you had technologies like Slack and Zoom That I think facilitated a new way of working, which was the ability for us to be remote, but aren't actually native to the way we are working when you're working remote. And so you're seeing a new ge…”
Apr 19, 2022
Feb 7, 2023 positive
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Opendoor bypassed approvals by giving frontline staff corporate cards and Slack bots
“So we literally gave everyone corporate cards and said, hey, if you see a home whose power is not on, if you type in the address into Slack, you will get back the phone number you're supposed to call, the account number you're supposed to say, and the credit c…”