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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…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”