Big news today for Stewart Butterfield and Slack, his enterprise collaboration app. It's raised $42.75 million, led by new investor The Social+Capital| TechCrunch
Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr who eventually left its acquirer Yahoo and started TinySpeck (and an ill-fated multiplayer game called| TechCrunch
Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s founding engineers, shares stories and lessons from building Slack. He shares Slack’s origin, the art of extreme responsiveness to customer feedback, how features like threads and reacji came together, Slack’s positioning and north star, product-led growth as a path to building startups, and how to have an outsized impact in a scaling organization.| www.itshipped.fm
It was the fall of 2013. Barack Obama was President. Game of Thrones had finished its third season. The red wedding shocked us all. WeWork was worth $440M, and Uber surpassed unicorn status with an eye-popping $3.7B valuation. MoviePass let you see as many movies as you wanted in| Building Slack
As we got started committing ideas to code, we already knew the utilitarian aspects of Slack would work — our own team had proven it through years of use. IRC and other chat apps had dedicated followings. It was clear that Channels and DMs with integrated files and search worked better| Building Slack
Eight of us sat around an old wooden table in Tiny Speck’s Vancouver office. Cardboard boxes and dead batteries were scattered around the abandoned desks of our former colleagues. The place felt big and empty. We’d shut down Ur — the world of Glitch — a month before. We were| Building Slack
