The Benefits of a Massive Layoff

Reed Hastings: Slack started as tiny spec, which was Stuart's idea for a game. He went back to his investors and said, not working, going to give you the money back. The company was basically going out of business but they had something interesting. They knew that Johnny Rogers, who's a friend of mine at Slack, hey, Jair, was like, amazing right? Because you saw him do his thing. And I would say on top of a good idea with what became Slack, they had a core set of folks that they knew exactly who they were,. quote, unquote hiring.