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Jason Fried: Slack Crushed Campfire With Onboarding and Bots, Not Chat
“The chat itself isn't better or worse. Chat is chat essentially. Onboarding and bots were the thing. And we didn't have them and they crushed us.”
Fried: Software chat tools are commodities still priced like luxuries
“The principle around this is that in any industry generics eventually come in. For example, there's a lot of chat tools that exist in software today in, in, in, in the industry. So they're basically commodities, but they're still priced like luxuries.”
Parr: a16z told Butterfield to pivot instead of returning his capital
“And for those who don't know, it was a video game company for one or two or three years and it sucked. And he was gonna give his money back to Andreessen Horowitz and they're like, dude, I don't care about this money, figure it out, just do something.”
Shaan Puri: The next major wave of AI applications will be multiplayer
“Every AI tool right now is single player. He's like, ChatGPT is just a tool you use yourself, and same thing with the image creators, and same thing with almost all of the tools are still single player, but the internet has showed us that, like, all the most p…”
Wilkinson: MetaLab declined equity for designing Slack at a $20M valuation
“Metalab back in 20, I guess it was 2012 or 20 13, we designed Slack. And at the time Slack was actually a failed gaming startup and Stuart Butterfield was basically trying to do something with the remains of it and trying to build, build a chat tool. And so He…”
Wilkinson: I passed on early investments in Coinbase and Slack
“I've got the ultimate, like, anti-portfolio of, you know, Coinbase and Slack and, you know, all sorts of other stuff.”
Puri: Frictionless software wins when unconventional app platforms reach critical mass
“Like, once these platforms reach a critical mass, somebody's gonna build something that's frictionless on top of it that is able to generate revenue. So I think there's money to be made in the unconventional app platforms that you don't really think about firs…”
Shaan Puri: Logging business highs and lows in Slack regulates founder psychology
“I have a slack channel for every company. I have a slack channel called highs and lows and in it, anytime there's a high, high in the moment of that business or a low, low... Instead of addressing the current problem, or basking in the glory of the current hig…”
Puri: Maintains a 'highs and lows' Slack log for startup perspective
“I have a Slack channel called literally highs and lows. And what I do is that anytime there's a high or a low, I'll go post it there. And the beautiful thing about it, because of the Slack channel, you could just scroll up and realize you're like three months …”
Stewart Butterfield Gave Jason Fried Advance Notice Before Launching Slack
“Stuart Butterfield sent me an email before they launched Slack. We were friends and he said, Hey, just want to let you know we're launching this thing. It's competitive with Campfire to some degree. We're buddies. I just want to like, let you know, like, that'…”
Shaan Puri outlines the 'import/export' framework for B2B startup ideation
“My import framework and export framework is if you're at a company and you wish something, you're like, dude, we would totally pay for this. That's a business idea you would want to import. You're better off going and starting that business. Cause it's probabl…”
Shaan Puri ignores tasks outside his three yearly priorities
“So I actually do a thing, which is I wrote out for the year. I said, here's the three big things, big shifts. I always call it like three shifts I'm making this year. I'm making this shift, and this shift. Those are the three things that need to change in my l…”