For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very… — Stewart Butterfield Age Copy Share Image
If your job requires that you spend a lot of time communicating with people across organizational boundaries, email is perfect. Email is… — Stewart Butterfield Boundaries 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 Child care Copy Share Image
The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era… — Stewart Butterfield Growth Copy Share Image
From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there,… — Stewart Butterfield Battle Copy Share Image
Some people will know exactly what they want to do at a very young age, but the odds are low. I feel… — Stewart Butterfield Attitude Copy Share Image
I think tech lives inside of a society that still has a lot of systemic racism and doesn't stop at the boundaries… — Stewart Butterfield Decision Copy Share Image
There are two big benefits from moving conversations from a mode where you're addressing individuals, or groups of individuals, to addressing a… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
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… — Stewart Butterfield Creation Copy Share Image
Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol.… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
A lot of companies lock up for a few weeks once a year for performance reviews. But there's a way to collect… — 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 Home 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 Failure Copy Share Image
One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're doing. You actually… — Stewart Butterfield Business Copy Share Image
I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something… — Stewart Butterfield Boss Copy Share Image
I remember working with a guy named Andrew Braccia at Yahoo, and Yahoo was the company that bought Flickr. Everyone on his… — Stewart Butterfield Business Copy Share Image
You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business,… — Stewart Butterfield Activation Copy Share Image
You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they… — Stewart Butterfield Football Copy Share Image
Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't… — Stewart Butterfield Business Copy Share Image
About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people… — Stewart Butterfield Family Copy Share Image
I was born in a little town called Lund in British Columbia. It's like a fishing village. My parents were hippies. They… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
