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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Slack comes up
Vibecoding is a Ticking Time Bomb (Coaching Session)
- ▶ 19:49 Sean Weisbrot It was going to be massive like Slack. 2 times in the scene
He Built a Mutual Fund Out of 200 Recruiting Clients and Hit $50M
- ▶ 4:07 Sean Weisbrot And it was only after we pivoted to try to compete with Slack that investors started to care about us.
Connect With People Liking Your Competitors' Posts Every Day
He Named His Agents and Gave One a Team of Five
- ▶ 3:16 Jim Weldon Then we started looking at, Hey, can I initiate a process or conversation via Slack? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:31 Jim Weldon It can slack with you.
- ▶ 22:06 Jim Weldon I will literally be slacking Vinny on my team to find out a pre-recorded message on that one. 5 times in the scene
29,000 Zoning Codes - Brian's AI Agent Will Know All of Them
- ▶ 12:10 Sean Weisbrot I remember back in 2020 when my company was working on an enterprise collaboration system that was meant to rival Slack.
Why Founders Stopped Being the Human in the Loop
- ▶ 21:02 Sean Weisbrot That's something that I thought about back in 2020, when I was doing my last tech company, we were building something to compete with Slack. 4 times in the scene
He Took Founders Trekking Before Writing a Single Check
- ▶ 22:10 Sean Weisbrot So let me focus on enterprise because the last few years we were building that product on Slack while we were communicating with Slack and Slack sucked badly. 3 times in the scene
She Turned Down an Acquisition Offer Before the Cake Was Baked
- ▶ 18:52 Sean Weisbrot I just won't show up on Slack for a month.
She Hit $1M and Tried to Maintain It. Her Soul Would Not Allow It.
- ▶ 6:53 Caitlin Merola We have slack channels with every client.
137 Countries Taught Him Why Users Do What You Want
- ▶ 40:01 Sean Weisbrot Slack hate them. 6 times in the scene
Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
- ▶ 29:15 Sean Weisbrot Well, that's one of the reasons why I started the company to compete with Slack because their whole pricing model was, hey, we're going to delete all of your chat history if you don't pay us five dollars per user per month. 2 times in the scene
Founders Only Capture 5% of the Value They Actually Create
- ▶ 25:47 Sean Weisbrot Because when you're doing a B to B SaaS like that, and we're trying to compete with Slack, so it's something that you need millions upon millions upon millions of dollars before you get to profit.
7 Fortune 250 CEOs Die Unexpectedly Every Year From This
- ▶ 27:37 Sean Weisbrot We were building a competitor to Slack.
He Built Chameleon Collective Because He Was Angry
- ▶ 47:17 unnamed speaker And so I, um, have basically multiple blocked out windows during the day in my calendar, and I use that for email and slack, and I just respond to it all in a really focused manner. 3 times in the scene
Photographers Weren't Replaced by Photoshop. So Why Fear AI?
- ▶ 5:09 Josh Fuller It needs to become a craftable, moldable tool set skill, uh, for whether you're a content strategist or you're, uh, you know, a data architect, you're, you're leveraging these tools, um, day to day, just like you might slack or, uh, email. 2 times in the scene
People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
- ▶ 25:50 Matthew Schmidt Um, you know, the, they can ask that at drop of a hat from Slack or Teams or from the web.
He Spent 3.5 Hours Telling Them Not to Hire Him
- ▶ 19:05 Sean Weisbrot And, um, when I would do these calls, I'd be like, I would send them a, a message on Slack.
They Thought the Equipment Vendor Could Handle the Cash Too
- ▶ 34:18 Sean Weisbrot Which was, you look at Slack, you look at teams, they built something that worked for them and everyone else has to use it that way, but it wasn't flexible and it was horribly, uh, it wasn't scalable. 4 times in the scene
He Called It a Leap of Faith Metric and It Closed Deals Faster
- ▶ 44:26 Sean Weisbrot So for example, one of the companies that are competitors to my startup nerve is Slack. 4 times in the scene
12 Candidates Refused the Job Because of One Person on Their Team
- ▶ 36:20 Sean Weisbrot And so if I see something in a Slack channel that
Why Your Superstar Already Has One Foot Out the Door
- ▶ 35:42 Davis Nguyen And other people, I make it clear that, Hey, if you want to talk about this privately on one-on-ones DM me, Slack me, you can WhatsApp me, then we can as well.
2 Billion People Use a Super App That Isn't One
- ▶ 21:33 Robbie Wade Like if you look at, if you look at Slack, that's like a discord, like kind of telegram is doing a lot of that stuff now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:47 Robbie Wade Like, are you mixing, like, a Slack and a WhatsApp, or is that kind of what you mean?
- ▶ 41:56 Sean Weisbrot So the way that we look at it is, if you look at Slack, 7 times in the scene
The Mental Health Pandemic Nobody Is Talking About Yet
- ▶ 25:37 Sean Weisbrot We use Slack for communication, so I essentially don't message them.
The 90-Second Story That Gets Investors Curious Enough to Ask
- ▶ 13:02 Sean Weisbrot And when I started doing the questioning of potential users, as well as friends and family, et cetera, people who've used Slack and Microsoft teams, they're like, I don't understand what an organization is. 5 times in the scene
The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
- ▶ 21:40 Darian Parrish They'll have, um, some sort of a chat, whether it's a Slack channel or a circle community where people can come get help with the challenges they're working on.
- ▶ 27:31 Sean Weisbrot Slack and for Salesforce, for example, any platform that comes out that says, Hey, you know, we're, we're open.
The Secret Weapon That Quietly Beats Every Competitor
- ▶ 16:47 Sean Weisbrot Did you hear Salesforce just announced they're going to be buying Slack for 27 points? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:33 Sean Weisbrot Um, chances are that'll be someone from Salesforce walking in for like maybe some VP somewhere will end up running Slack in two or three years. 3 times in the scene
Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- ▶ 8:10 Sean Weisbrot And it is kind of what I find when I talk to people because the main complaint with Slack is, oh, it's disorganized, but they don't really know how to explain how it's disorganized until I start saying, well, have you thought about this?
The $300 Membership Model That Replaced 5 Conferences
- ▶ 9:30 Sean Weisbrot You know, because we've had this remote first policy and we use Slack for our communication, I can see with my GitLab bot feed that they're actually pushing code.