Stewart Butterfield

“Centralize...raised a $19 million round led by New Enterprise Associates, with Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, Stewart Butterfield, and Scott Woody also investing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”