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Willison: StrongDM used coding agents to simulate Slack, Jira, and Okta APIs
“So what they did is they built their own simulation of Slack and Jira and Okta and all of this software they were integrating with. And the way they did that is they basically took the API documentation for the public APIs for Slack and the client libraries, t…”
Rachitsky: Reader Survey Ranks ChatGPT Ahead of Gmail and Slack
“I did a survey of my readers and asked them what tools to use every day in your work and most use. And ChatGPT was Number one above Gmail, above Slack, above anything else. 90% of people said they use ChatGPT regularly.”
Crusson: Atlassian aimed to win enterprise communications before Slack and Teams
“I worked on HipChat and Stride. HipChat was one known, Stride less so we were trying to win the enterprise communications market before Slack and Microsoft Teams came about.”
Lemkin: Most of Slack's revenue was enterprise sales at IPO
“Slack started all self-serve. And by the time they went public, the majority of their revenue was enterprise sales.”
Weiss: Slack doubled paid customer growth after a 2018 self-serve pivot
“We wound up kind of doubling the rate of our new paid customer growth in the year and a couple of years after that and kind of reaccelerating the self service business.”
Singleton: Stripe Co-Created Stripe Billing With Slack and Figma
“And when we got to starting the Stripe Billing product, we realized that there were a number of our existing users. These were companies like Figma and Slack. We were already using Stripe for payments, but had these subscriptions business models. And we figure…”
Former Slack SVP Peter Vidani joined The Browser Company as an IC
“We just hired someone named Peter Vidani.
When I was 20 building consumer social software, he was like the coolest, most impressive person.
He was the first designer at Tumblr, ran the design team at Tumblr for seven years.
and the most recently was SVP of de…”