Stewart Butterfield

Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or…

— Stewart Butterfield

Sometimes you will get feedback that is contrary to your vision. You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that…

— Stewart Butterfield

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

I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading…

— Stewart Butterfield

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are…

— Stewart Butterfield

The social use of Slack does drive awareness - it's a good thing for us.

— Stewart Butterfield

I think we are reluctant to move people out of an organization when there is not a good fit. It is typically…

— Stewart Butterfield

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

If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.

— Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

— Stewart Butterfield

Some people will know exactly what they want to do at a very young age, but the odds are low. I feel…

— Stewart Butterfield

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

— Stewart Butterfield

If your job requires that you spend a lot of time communicating with people across organizational boundaries, email is perfect. Email is…

— Stewart Butterfield