Collision 2015 - Stewart Butterfield of Slack with Jonathan Krim of The Wall Street Journal
summary
Company claims to have turned team communication into a searchable platform that replaces most internal email, integrates everywhere, and scales with heavy automation: 10,000 human messages and 50–80,000 system messages a day. Funding preserves options with $160 million in the bank and a valuation north of $2.5 billion. Adoption is gradual—roughly 30% of created teams become active—while security consumes 20–40% of engineering time. Biggest operational stress is hiring to sustain 5–6% weekly growth without killing agility.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The roots of Slack
- 1:43Funding and market outlook
- 4:40Disrupting communication
- 10:16Security and compliance
- 14:50Integrations and workflow
- 19:26Scaling internal culture
- 21:37The challenge of growth
