The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I'm going to end up with a lot more money than I feel like I'm entitled to, given how hard I work. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
At my first job in the mid-to-late '90s, almost every product was from Microsoft. Everything was designed to work together - Windows… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
One advantage that I think Slack has for most people who use it is, you pull out your phone, you look at… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
Every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. If you go above and beyond on the customer service side, people are much more likely to… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
We created materials to explain Slack to individuals - what it was for, how it worked, what you're supposed to do - but we… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business, it's going… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share
