If your job requires that you spend a lot of time communicating with people across organizational boundaries, email is perfect. Email is the lowest common denominator, and it’s going to cross organizational boundaries really well. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
If you’re not hiring from some groups of the population, then you’re obviously missing out. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
It’s easy to hire too fast and have chaos and disorganization and insufficient management. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
One advantage that I think Slack has for most people who use it is, you pull out your phone, you look at the home screen, there’s the Slack icon. You know when you tap this one, it’s all the people you work with, and it’s only the people you work with. And that’s a big advantage. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
Silicon Valley is the engine for wealth creation. They’ve displaced energy, they’ve displaced financial services, and if we don’t start including a broader array of people in that, the same group of people is going to rise to the top. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
I almost never go to news sites – it’s overwhelming how much content is out there. But I will pay attention to what my friends are picking up and sharing. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, ‘I hate it. I am not going to use this,’ that’s it for us. We won’t get evaluated. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
We created materials to explain Slack to individuals – what it was for, how it worked, what you’re supposed to do – but we also built resources for team administrators. We wanted to give them ammunition to help convince the team. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
