Internally, we sometimes say Slack is like a nervous system, connective tissue, or the internal network. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
People think I’m smart because Flickr was successful. I’m lucky. Maybe I’m smart, too. But, I’m lucky. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it’s just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There’s a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It’s one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
We’d never make Slack an email client, but it’s good to support sending emails into it. There’s quite a bit of formatting you can do. When I get an email from the outside world that I want to share with team, I cut and paste it into Slack. But really, I should be able to import that email as an object. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
Email is the lowest common denominator. It’s the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn’t really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you’re sending a message to a human you don’t know well, you’re using email. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
I think there’s a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that’s music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative – they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
There was a lot of dialogue between the people who were developing Flickr and their users to get feedback on how they wanted Flickr to develop. That interaction made the initial community very strong, and then that seed was there for new people who joined to make the community experience strong for them, too. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
The experience of being able to search back over all your team’s communications for, in our case, millions of messages, is super-valuable. But you don’t know what that’s like until you actually have it. Stewart Butterfield Read Quote
