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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
