The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
It's easy to hire too fast and have chaos and disorganization and insufficient management. — Stewart Butterfield Chaos Copy Share Image
The social use of Slack does drive awareness - it's a good thing for us. — Stewart Butterfield Awareness Copy Share Image
Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time… — Stewart Butterfield Computers Copy Share Image
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 Day Copy Share Image
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… — Stewart Butterfield Change Copy Share Image
I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with… — Stewart Butterfield Data Copy Share Image
Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things. — Stewart Butterfield Life Copy Share Image
In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience. — Stewart Butterfield Design Copy Share Image
I think email's going to be around for, like, another 10,000 years. It's a great way to cross organizational boundaries. — Stewart Butterfield Boundaries Copy Share Image
In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage… — 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
We created materials to explain Slack to individuals - what it was for, how it worked, what you're supposed to do -… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo,… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I think we are reluctant to move people out of an organization when there is not a good fit. It is typically… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading… — Stewart Butterfield Advice Copy Share Image
It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are… — Stewart Butterfield Data 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
Internally, we sometimes say Slack is like a nervous system, connective tissue, or the internal network. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, 'I hate it. I am not going to use this,' that's it… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes you will get feedback that is contrary to your vision. You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that… — Stewart Butterfield Direction Copy Share Image
We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
Anything we can do that lets people find information more quickly is something we're interested in. — Stewart Butterfield Data Copy Share Image
People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill. — Stewart Butterfield Artist 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
People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky. — Stewart Butterfield Lucky 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
I almost never go to news sites - it's overwhelming how much content is out there. But I will pay attention to… — Stewart Butterfield Attention Copy Share Image
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably… — 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… — Stewart Butterfield Above and beyond Copy Share Image
There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior. — Stewart Butterfield Automation Copy Share Image
We sent our user research team out to sit with customers for periods of time and get some insight into how Slack… — Stewart Butterfield Customer support Copy Share Image
