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How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration Jul 17, 2026 · 1 mention

Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott Dec 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:56 Maggie Hott Um, what we needed, what Stuart needed, is for someone to be on the phones, on the front line,

How to Build Top-Performing Sales Orgs with OpenAI's GTM Leader Maggie Hott Aug 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:18 Maggie Hott That afternoon, Stuart stood up on a desk, again, remember, we're like one small room, and he addressed the whole company, and he says, this is going to be challenging, this is going to be tough, but we will make it through this, but it is… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:16 Maggie Hott In 2016, Stuart Butterfield came to the sales team at Slack and said, we're going to hire an SVP of sales, Bob Fratty.

What’s Working Now: AI’s Real Impact on Sales with SaaStr's CEO and Co-Founder, and SVP & GM Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:45 Jason Lemkin If you asked it about a speaker that we had at Sastra that actually spoke, what does Stuart Butterfield say the two times he came to Sastra?

Why I’m Scared to Buy New SaaS Apps Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Mar 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:54 Jason Lemkin And I remember thinking that was crazy at the first Sasser annual and asking Stuart Butterfield about it. 2 times in the scene

Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin Jul 14, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 44:27 Jason Lemkin But everyone else, every other founder I've ever asked on stage, you know, Stuart Butterfield, Slack. 3 times in the scene

SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO Mar 10, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:16 Jason Lemkin It's where Eric Wan learned SAST, and Stuart Butterfield learned SAST, and so many, that's why we get so many great speakers, because they were part of SASTR so early on.

SaaStr CRO Confidential: How to Raise in Late 2022 with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund Nov 1, 2022 · 1 mention

VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee Sep 15, 2022 · 1 mention

Ask Me Anything About Customer Success with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang Dec 9, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:46 Jason Lemkin I mean, certainly doing Stuart Butterfield at Slack in 2015 when Slack was just exploding, telling me we'd never have salespeople. 2 times in the scene

How to Build a Unicorn in 8 Simple Charts with SafeGraph Apr 18, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:19 Auren Hoffman Uh, while he's been able to acquire great UI UX people through acquisitions over the years, Stuart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack is one of the greatest.

The Twists and Turns Along the Way to Building a Unicorn with Salesloft's CEO Kyle Porter Jan 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:44 Jason Lemkin Well, I mean, I asked Stuart when we did our first meeting, but intuitively we were already slacking, right?

Going Long: The 20-year Journey of Being a CEO + Founder with BlackLine | SaaStr Software Community Jan 9, 2021 · 1 mention

From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack Jul 1, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 11:50 Danny Herzberg So what the early Slack team did very elegantly with Stewart's leadership is design a product that is so intuitive and so frictionless to sign up for that it can add value from the get go and a super technical buyer like the one that we…
  • ▶ 22:57 Kevin Egan Stewart, by the way, on that, on that quote, uh, claims that he was, it was taken out of context, and he never said it, so. 5 times in the scene

Insider's Guide To Building Great Product w/Merci Grace, Slack's First Head of Product Oct 9, 2018 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:45 Alan Yen So Mercy was employee number 50 at Slack and she was the first head of product after Stuart Butterfield.
  • ▶ 2:06 Alan Yen Ok, so Mercy, you actually met Stuart through the gaming community, um, and so, 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:34 Merci Grace Um, and that was a role that Stuart and I decided on really because of my games background, that I had built a really great onboarding experiences, and there's a whole thing that, um, you know, he really believes in, which is that games… 4 times in the scene
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