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AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late?
- ▶ 1:07:30 Ryan Greenblatt So like, I think that would be pretty nice is like, if it's the case that all the AIs are chatting with each other on Slack and, you know, are communicating and, and, you know, or have like some memory system, like recently cloud code…
How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
- ▶ 2:26 Mitch Trojanowski And it's useful for your eye, because it's rude if somebody just blabbered and sent that to you as a, as a Slack DM.
- ▶ 56:25 Matt Turck Yeah, right before we started recording, you were showing, uh, some internal slacks between your co-founder, Matt, and, and yourself, and, uh, if I may, uh, disclose them, like Matt was sending you, uh, a slack at four a.m., uh, and, uh. 3 times in the scene
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 15:55 Ivan Borzin Just send a Slack message and, or you do linear or whatever it is, we will see, or it's going to be a net new app.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 0:50 Matt Turck Before Anthropic, he worked on some of the defining software platforms of the modern era at places like Slack, Stripe, and Notion.
- ▶ 52:34 Felix Rieseberg Once upon a time, I, I spent five years working at a company called Slack, and Slack at the time was, we've certainly felt like we were having some companies revolutionize the way they work, but we were certainly not the first chat app. 3 times in the scene
Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
- ▶ 8:52 Harrison Chase If, if you take a harness and give it a particular tool for interacting with Slack, I would argue that's you kind of like customizing and building on top of the harness. 2 times in the scene
AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
- ▶ 1:27 George Sivulka It'll probably have to have a Slack.
- ▶ 11:45 George Sivulka It'll probably have to have a Slack.
Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search
- ▶ 35:28 Arvind Jain And deep integrations into products like Confluence, Jira, Workday, Google Drive, and Slack, and so on and so forth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:28 Arvind Jain Um, let's say that somebody asks, asks a question in Slack on a, on some technical topic and some other individual answers, you know, with, um, answers that question and attaches a link to a document that contains the answer.
Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
- ▶ 38:41 Aaron Levie You know, all your emails, all your documents, all your slack, you know, channels.
Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
- ▶ 12:55 Francois Chollet Um, so I, I use it on Slack daily for all kinds of, you know,
Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
- ▶ 23:39 Douwe Kiela And if it's a PDF, then I believe it much more than if it's our internal, like, Slack or something.
- ▶ 34:22 Douwe Kiela So I don't have to index all of Slack if I can call Slack's search API and get the information that I need. 2 times in the scene
Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
- ▶ 17:20 Matt Turck They had a Slack competitor for a few years.
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 24:34 Jordan Tigani and we have like a Slack.
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- ▶ 52:30 Richard Socher So, you know, you have in the past, like, sort of examples like that was Slack. 2 times in the scene
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
- ▶ 45:54 Olivier Pomel What they're saying on Slack and email about what's going on in their incidents, um, and, uh, piece together like the semantic, semantic meanings of the various things they even put into the events, the logs, and things like that.
- ▶ 52:22 Olivier Pomel And by the time you get on, on Slack, the body's there already and told, and he's telling you, um, 2 times in the scene
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
- ▶ 10:27 Eric Glyman You know, we even do through productivity, through teams and Slack and approvals.
The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak, CEO of VAST Data
- ▶ 39:14 Renen Hallak I don't open Slack. 2 times in the scene
How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
- ▶ 22:25 Des Traynor And I think when people adopt Stripe or Linear or Intercom or Slack or whatever back, back in the day, it wasn't cause they were the only payments platform or project management platform.
- ▶ 57:50 Des Traynor The idea that you could do it and have like basically no relationship with people or that they'd be just tabs in a browser or like faces in a Slack channel.
How Moody’s Analytics Is Using AI to Transform Credit Risk | Cristina Pieretti & Yimei Fan
How to Ship Reliable GenAI Apps: Humanloop CEO on LLM Observability, RAG & Rapid Iteration
- ▶ 0:55 unnamed speaker It's shared in Slack.
Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 35:07 Stanislas Polu And eventually if you want to give more context to your assistance, you can connect, uh, your notion, connect your Slack, connect your GitHub, and we take care of everything, the kind of synchronization in real time, and obviously the…
Building LlamaIndex: Jerry Liu on Scaling Retrieval-Augmented AI
- ▶ 15:29 Jerry Liu You might want to load data from your Slack, your Salesforce, your notion,
- ▶ 26:58 Jerry Liu Uh, we, we've seen people build, uh, these workflows at different settings from, for instance, like, uh, hacks on projects at startups, um, building, for instance, like, uh, track GPT, like, plugin over, like, your Slack or your Notion,…
- ▶ 35:50 Jerry Liu and you check like Slack
An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
- ▶ 18:52 Daniel Sternberg And I was like, you know, watching this in Slack, almost, like, I wasn't that in the weeds of that part of the product development process, but, you know, really, like, day by day, like, here's some mocks, getting feedback from all the way…
Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch | Lightning AI Founder & CEO, William Falcon
- ▶ 4:48 William Falcon I, like, I was, like, sending the code over Slack.
Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
- ▶ 3:59 Shinji Kim They would post the same question on the Slack channel, but maybe slightly different or worded differently, so they couldn't find the answer in the past.
Fireside Chat: Mark Grover (Co-Founder & CEO, Stemma) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:49 Mark Grover The reality is I feel like they spent all their time on Slack and they're like, Hey, what's the source of truth for this data? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:17 Mark Grover For your bi, you already have slack for conversations. 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 25:25 Aaron Katz It's not that dissimilar from Slack. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:51 Abe Gong Um, what most people do is some combination of an alert through Slack or email or PagerDuty, kind of your, your tool of choice there, and then also generating a report that goes into a static data documentation site that says this slice of…
- ▶ 20:43 Abe Gong Um, and, you know, we, we have a Slack community that has several thousand people in it at this point, so we, we already have, I think, a pretty decent sense of where, where the main majority is going.
Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 14:10 DeVaris Brown Um, we can do, uh, basically, uh, Maroxa to, to, to web hooks, uh, and so just imagine, like, it was funny, our, our, our first demo was that, you know, we took this e-commerce store, like, just random ass, you know, kind of rails app, uh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:57 DeVaris Brown And if you're in, in the slacks, uh, check out the locally op optimistic channel.
Data Observability and Pipelines: OpenLineage and Marquez
- ▶ 20:13 Julien Le Dem There's a Slack, there's a Twitter handle on the same name. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 15:31 Amit Bendov And, um, and we're announcing integration dot wedding with, with Slack, uh, with Zoom. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat Part II: Ben Horowitz (a16z) on Culture with Matt Turck (FirstMark) at Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 15:01 Ben Horowitz You know, they're interested in other things in life, and so, and, and I think that that's a component in every company, you know, is when we, ah, at Slack, you know, kind of, they started up as bottoms up SaaS, and then, you know, ah, had… 2 times in the scene
NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 4:18 Clement Delangue Um, obviously all this communication went online in natural language, so you're gonna send text, you're gonna send emails, you're gonna use Slack in natural language, you're gonna read the news, read books in, in natural language.
(Actually) Listening at Scale // George Davis, Founder & CEO (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 2:33 George Davis In your team chat, Slack, and in application chat, old school email or ticket based systems like Zendesk and Salesforce.
AI for Sensitive Information // Apoorv Agarwal, Text IQ (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 11:06 Apoorv Agarwal Uh, so, uh, it's, uh, different, uh, lot of different techniques, uh, uh, we have to, you know, employ, uh, when, when we wanna deal with things like instant messages or slacks or chat rooms that, that have a lot of people, uh, talking…
Fireside Chat: Ben Uretsky, Founder of DigitalOcean (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 24:46 Ben Uretsky Obviously we use a lot of asynchronous communication, Slack, and, and email.
Fireside Chat: Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 15:32 Martin Casado Think Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Martin Casado Actually, I would have said that about Slack.
5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 3:10 Dennis Mortensen And of course, you can transfer this agent from email into a Slack setting, or even into settings that are not really kind of agent-like, and we'll talk about that as well.
- ▶ 10:58 Dennis Mortensen Now, even on Slack, we kind of figured out when we need to carry it out of the Slack conversation and into other UIs, whether that be web UIs or email. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:45 Dennis Mortensen So if you run a seventy-man band, you can start to use this on Slack and just say, hey, slash Amy, set something up tomorrow afternoon for me and the product design team for half an hour, and she'll 3 times in the scene
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 13:44 Ajay Kulkarni And, uh, and of course, we're an open source database, uh, patchy two, so if you want to try it out, you can check us out on GitHub, uh, and if you want to, uh, join the community, we have a very active Slack community, uh, online that you…
A Smart Approach to Diversity & Inclusion // Daniel Chait, Greenhouse (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 6:55 Daniel Chait Companies like Pinterest and Airbnb and Slack who have very strong efforts around building more diverse workplaces.
Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 9:03 Natalie Evans-Harris If you haven't been in their Slack channel and on their site, it's amazing, you should join.
Superpowered Conversations // George Davis, Frame.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 0:36 George Davis How many people out here use Slack? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:27 George Davis We're only now documenting it because it's in, in Slack and other Team Chat applications, so now this is the threshold where we most need support and, and, uh, assistive tools. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:46 George Davis The transactional workflows that we have in other systems, Salesforce, Jira, Asana, those aren't going away, and a lot of mistakes get made when people discuss something and they consider the work done on email or Slack, and it doesn't get…
- ▶ 16:30 George Davis Uh, if you have, if you're already talking to your customers in Slack, you can try us right now at frame.ai, uh, and if you're interested in solving these problems, we're hiring.
- ▶ 18:28 George Davis So more and more of these, ah, of these systems, Slack included, are offering tools to restructure the conversation a little bit on the fly, you know, start a thread, create a new side channel, and invite people to that.
AI and a Different Type of Competitive Advantage // Omar Tawakol, Voicera (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 6:57 Omar Tawakol Salesforce, and we're just about to roll out a feature where you can automatically push it to Salesforce without ever logging in, have your action items, ah, sent, or you get a text from Eva saying, hey, I'm gonna, ah, do you wanna talk…
Drug Discovery as a Data Problem // Sajith Wickramasekara, Benchling (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 14:12 Sajith Wickramasekara So I think about tech, like, things like Slack and whatnot are only coming to maturity now, so, like, you kind of gotta, you gotta look back a few years when you, you set your expectations.
Big Data at Slack // Noah Weiss, Slack (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 2:02 Noah Weiss And start building proactive, kind of, recommendations, uh, based on where you've been, who you are, your tastes, your social graph, uh, and, kind of, that's, that's where, kind of, the company evolved to, uh, and then left earlier this… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Matt Turck Uh, you know, I guess, tell us about Slack. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:19 Matt Turck And as a passing thought, like, any idea why Slack is taking off now? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:32 Matt Turck Um, so, so you mentioned one key project is essentially search, making everything searchable, so everything that's outside of Slack, searchable from Slack? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Noah Weiss so I guess since so many people here use Slack, I'd be curious, if you're away for maybe a day or two, and you're thinking about logging in for the first time, how many of you feel a little bit like that anticipation of being extremely… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 Matt Turck Uh, do you want to tell us a little bit about what's, uh, very specific about Slack, data, the discrimination of, I guess, some is private, some is public within the company, like, I think about that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:00 Matt Turck Um, so in the world of, um, data and AI, one, one concept that, um, comes back a lot in conversation is, um, Slack bots. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 Noah Weiss Uh, there's a company in New York that we've invested in through our Slack fund, uh, just raised another round a couple weeks ago called Troops, which is kind of building
- ▶ 20:58 Matt Turck Uh, another interesting trend is the consumerization of the enterprise, which is Slack. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:15 Matt Turck You mentioned earlier in the conversation that, um, Slack at the very beginning was a distributed company before it became distributed, and so Slack is headquartered in San Francisco, but you're based here, and you're building this team… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:35 Noah Weiss Uh, so kind of building this kind of fully cross-functional autonomous team to focus on making Slack the tool kind of smarter and companies more productive the more they use it.
- ▶ 26:53 unnamed speaker Um, one of the things I really love about Slack is how easy it is to log in, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 Noah Weiss I was just with them earlier today around Midtown talking to large companies that want to use Slack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:08 Noah Weiss Uh, Slack.com slash jobs has those positions listed as well.
Venture Capital Investor Panel: Investing in Big Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:46 unnamed speaker You know, I, I'm a believer that, you know, if you're, you, the best, the best products of today or tomorrow, the winners of tomorrow will, um, you know, will solve problems in a way that where AI would be behind the scenes, where you…
Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 15:07 Emil Eifrem A little bit harder to express if you, uh, are slacking, or if you're skyping, or if you're expressing something in text, right?
Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 8:24 Ryan Smith I mean, you're watching Slack go nuts right now within organizations because there's champions internally, and I can't tell our employees, and we have 700 employees, if they all want to buy Tableau, I can't tell them no.