Stewart Butterfield

I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome.

— Stewart Butterfield

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

— Stewart Butterfield

It's easy to hire too fast and have chaos and disorganization and insufficient management.

— Stewart Butterfield

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

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

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

Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time…

— Stewart Butterfield

In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage…

— Stewart Butterfield

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

— Stewart Butterfield

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

— Stewart Butterfield

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

— Stewart Butterfield

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

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo,…

— Stewart Butterfield

We created materials to explain Slack to individuals - what it was for, how it worked, what you're supposed to do -…

— Stewart Butterfield

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

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very…

— Stewart Butterfield

We sent our user research team out to sit with customers for periods of time and get some insight into how Slack…

— Stewart Butterfield

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

I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant…

— Stewart Butterfield

Anything we can do that lets people find information more quickly is something we're interested in.

— Stewart Butterfield

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

— Stewart Butterfield

Internally, we sometimes say Slack is like a nervous system, connective tissue, or the internal network.

— Stewart Butterfield

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

— Stewart Butterfield

Every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. If you go above and beyond on the customer service side, people are much more…

— Stewart Butterfield

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably…

— Stewart Butterfield

I almost never go to news sites - it's overwhelming how much content is out there. But I will pay attention to…

— Stewart Butterfield

For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to…

— Stewart Butterfield

People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.

— Stewart Butterfield

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

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

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

From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there,…

— Stewart Butterfield

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

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

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

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

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

You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business,…

— Stewart Butterfield

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something…

— Stewart Butterfield

One advantage that I think Slack has for most people who use it is, you pull out your phone, you look at…

— Stewart Butterfield