What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one. Stewart Butterfield endgoodhave Change image and share on social
Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more. Stewart Butterfield decadeemailhappen 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 related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me. Stewart Butterfield acidconfluencedatum Change image and share on social
There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency. Stewart Butterfield communicationemailinternal Change image and share on social
When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email. Stewart Butterfield buildcallchat 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