I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home. Stewart Butterfield amsterdamchoosecity Change image and share on social
People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. Stewart Butterfield acquireaddearly Change image and share on social
For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it. Stewart Butterfield companyconvincehard Change image and share on social
About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them. Stewart Butterfield babybirthfamily share on social
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make. Stewart Butterfield barelycarechild share on social
Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher-fidelity than the lowest-common-denominator technology. There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Stewart Butterfield bitecommoncompany share on social
I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say. Stewart Butterfield boscompanydesigner share on social
I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them. Stewart Butterfield difficultfigurefind Change image and share on social
In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate. Stewart Butterfield channelcreatediscuss Change image and share on social
You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully. Stewart Butterfield attentioncasecustomer share on social