Slack

6 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2023 by Stewart Butterfield · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Apr 28, 2023 positive
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Butterfield: Best software methodology is solving your own aggravating problems egolessly
“This, by the way, I think is the greatest software development methodology that's impossible to replicate, which is, don't think about what you're doing, have no ego, there's no speculation, there's no, I can imagine a user would want to spend the minimum numb…”
Stewart Butterfield Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 29:59 Slack's Stewart Butterfield: The Big Pivot
Apr 28, 2023 positive
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Butterfield: Group-Wide Adoption Friction Converts Directly into High Product Retention
“The benefit of that, though, once you're able to break through, is once the group starts doing it, you, the, what was difficult about it becomes its benefit. It's very hard to get the group to change to anything else once they switch.”
Stewart Butterfield Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 33:52 Slack's Stewart Butterfield: The Big Pivot
Apr 28, 2023
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Butterfield: Slack launched with the exact pricing and vision in its first deck
“It had the pricing that we went live with. It's exactly the product vision. It's exactly the way we marketed it. Like everything was preset and we didn't have to change it because I think we had three and a half years of practice and finding product market fit…”
Stewart Butterfield Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 30:49 Slack's Stewart Butterfield: The Big Pivot
Apr 28, 2023 positive
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Butterfield: Games matter primarily as excuses for social interaction
“It's not games that are so interesting to me, it's play as an excuse to interact with people socially.”
Stewart Butterfield Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 9:20 Slack's Stewart Butterfield: The Big Pivot
Apr 28, 2023 neutral
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Butterfield: Early Slack Relied on Internal Rather Than Cross-Company Network Effects
“So Slack was a really interesting product to scale in the early days, because it had very, very little network effect between companies, but a huge, like, binary, you know, hundred percent or just nothing inside of companies.”
Stewart Butterfield Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 34:04 Slack's Stewart Butterfield: The Big Pivot
Feb 22, 2024 negative
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Gustafsson: Deepfake attacks will expand into Slack and Microsoft Teams
“Extrapolating that further, as we think about, you know, future innovations, making it much easier to create these deep fakes, whether it's an audio or audio visual, whether it's your Slack or your Teams or your chatting interface, whatever it is, all of which…”
Poppy Gustafsson Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 9:15 Battling cyber attacks and deepfakes with AI (with Darktrace's Poppy Gustafsson) | Masters of Scale
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