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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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Is It Still Crazy for You?

Slack is very intensively used, up to a couple of hours a day for for paid users. As demand increases, capacity increases, largely automatically. So that was great, but we did have to scale a bunch of things. We asked all our salespeople to reach out to each of their customers and ask if therew's any way we could help in the first twenty four hours....

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