Slack

“We're a long way since 2023, when Salesforce dissolved its board M&A committee... because of how hard it was to integrate a trio of mega-deals (MuleSoft, Tableau, and Slack).”

“You would go in Slack or Microsoft Teams and be like, 'Does anyone know someone at that team?'”

“We've decided that for that kind of a question, we will trust AI to mediate the security and privacy of that request within a company.”

“Microsoft (Teams) and Slack”

“Meta is adding connector support to a range of tools often used by small businesses, including Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, Intuit QuickBooks, Lovable, Notion, Shopify, Slack, Stripe and Zoom.”

“a lot of the most AI appealed people and companies in the world still use Slack... if the harness is in there... then you have like this mega data moat”

“Stuart Butterfield, who started Slack, and he was working on a totally different business. He had three million left... And they sold it for $30 billion.”

“Productivity. Slack, Granola, Wispr, Gamma, Notion, Airtable: how teams communicate, run meetings, and capture notes day to day.”

“I think it's Stuart Butterfield of Slack who said something very similar. The only real measure of the effect you're having on innovation is the extent to which you change behavior.”

“The landscape images reveal the dominant tools across categories. In productivity: Slack, Granola, GAMMA, Wispr, Airtable.”

“I read somewhere that there has been like a 300% increase in Slack agent usage... which is essentially saying that you don't need to log into the Salesforce interface to get the data.”

“He joined Accel with the explicit mandate of investing in consumer internet companies... He led the seed investment into Slack.”

“One of the best enterprise software investors in the last two decades. — Arun Mathew”

“Anthropic's biggest announcement other than Fable in like the past month is this thing called Claude Tag, where you work with a Claude colleague in a shared way. Well, guess what system they launched it in? Slack.”

“Slackbot’s MCP Client — Work across 20+ apps in Slack with multiplayer collaboration (149 votes)”

“Slack is a GFC-era founding, plotted on chart during GFC spike”

“Slack was a great example because I think Slack might have just been proven and better and no new... Stewart keeps trying to start game companies and those turn into unexpected bigger hit companies.”

“A friend named Stuart Butterfield was kind enough to share with me... in this crowd is someone who, to his friends, seemed insane, who glimpsed the future.”

“SaaS incumbents Are Irrationally Locking Down Data Access... Salesforce/Slack in response to AI disruption fears.”

“He did not wait for a new idea to fall from the sky. He treated his failure like a box of spare parts.”

“Slack is a great example. The product is multiplayer or collaborative by default... once people start using it, it'll be so difficult for them to stop using it.”

“That's Stuart Butterfield. You know, he's a great entrepreneur. So, like, companies go through changes and this and that. If you've, you know, like, if you're a special founder and you don't run out of cash, I'm still for that and would bet on that.”

“Slack was in dire straits before he figured it out. You know, he had built a game on Flash called Glitch, and Steve Jobs outlawed Flash on the iPad, and it was an iPad game. And, like, that's how dead he was, you know, and he had, like, $6 million left, and he turned it into Slack.”

“If you have an agent that has access to your linear tickets, all your Slack engineering channels, all customer feedback from emails or tools like Pylin and GitHub...”

“productivity (Notion, Slack, Gmail, Stripe)”