Preparing for launch
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications
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It’s one of the fastest-growing public SaaS companies in the world with eye-popping gross margins. Slack is world-class at acquiring, retaining, and growing with the fastest-growing companies in the world. As they grow, Slack grows, and revenue compounds while costs stay relatively flat. Slack Connect will turbocharge that compounding by allowing n... See more
Packy McCormick • Slack: The Bulls are typing...
One of the most dangerous transitions that a company makes is going from fewer than ten team members to more than twenty in a short time. During this time, communication and productivity usually break down. The system of group organization that existed when the company was all sitting in the same room together suddenly no longer works when team mem
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Superhuman | Acquired Podcast
acquired.fmDropbox, in the years before its IPO, came to orient itself in a new direction—to focus on highest-value users in the highest-value networks interacting with the highest-value files.