Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's… — Stewart Butterfield 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 the lowest common denominator, and it's going to cross organizational boundaries really well. — 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
