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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications

The Vergecast

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Are You in the Weeds as People Moved to Remote Work and Deployed Slack?

There's so much of using slack that's like telling people to not at hear everybody in a channel. So if you don't kind of implicitly trust that people mention your name any time something requires your attention, then the whole thing seems overwhelming and unworkable. The basic thrust for everyone is create a channel for everything that's going on across the company,. Every conversation, every project, every initiative, every team, business unit, office location, lke, literally everything. Once you do that, everyone knows where to go to ask their question or give their up date. And that's really transformative....

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