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Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on AI, Software, and the End of the Tech Boom

Odd Lots

CHAPTER

The Rise and Fall of SAS

Slack launched in 2014, and now it's at a $2 billion revenue run rate. It took us about 18 months to get to $100 million of ARR; that growth was crazy through that whole period. I think the excesses are maybe not a different story, but I guess there's two parallel tracks. One is like the Google Facebook track, which is they make a lot of money. And then there's the VC bat company, which is They raised a lots of money.

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