Slack

“Now, since then, with companies that I'm working with and have insight into, stuff has started picking up again, at least to some extent. There are still those big winners, you know, that are Let's say Zoom, you know, or Slack or someone in the podcast space, …”

“We say, hey, if you don't need to hear back on something for two, 3:04 hours, send an email. And if you need an urgent answer, and you are hung up, and you cannot proceed, or you're on a call, and you're right now, then Slack me, or frankly, send me a text mes…”

“MicroConf Connect with 1100 people who do not work for the same company”

“A big, big learning that, that smacked me right in the face once I Attempted to, ah, to kind of launch it after building it for about nine months was just the wide chasm between people's recognition that their communication patterns are not healthy and that a …”

“When you look at companies that continue to grow year after year after year, it's almost never, especially in the B to B space, Pretty much never a single product. I think Slack might be one exception I can think of. Salesforce, they have a kajillion products.…”

“This is already in the works for us, a microconf. We have microconf connect, right? Which is a Slack channel has like 5100 founders and aspiring founders. We are going to be offering a Premium paid version of that, which is had just has a hand, you know, five …”

“And I think about tools like Slack as one of those, you choose Slack as the least worst option to solve that problem for you.”

“I'm used to paying Slack six figures. A year. To run my, you know what I mean? And it like, it's a massive, it's more, I think it's more than 50% of our profit on Connect is, goes to Slack.”

“If you still look at the P and L majority of their expenses are still going towards marketing and sales, which is fascinating to kind of see that.”

“We were paying six figures a year for f***ing Slack for MicroConf Connect. It was outrageous.”

“To me, I'm like, you might have more of a chance to grow the business by going after the seven hundred million people or whatever left who are probably still running their company's primary on email than you would living in this like very clearly like We all k…”

“So this to me is actually a good thing because it's a little bit of a barrier to entry for upcoming apps that could potentially compete with you. Not a huge moat though.”

“Strong virality is when I invite you. Strong virality is Slack, where I'm the tech lead on my five-person dev team, and I invite my four other people. They create an account, And they do stuff and they interact with it more, more deeply than just clicking a li…”

“When pivoting first came out, they would say, like, Slack was a, it was like a video game company, right? And it's like, they pivoted the video game into Slack and said, that's not a pivot. That's just a, you just started a new product. Let's not, let's be rea…”