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Stewart Butterfield

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It’s hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you’re looking at the railway robber baron era or the 1920s or the ’50s or the ’70s, it used to take a long time for a company to get to the point where they had tens of millions of dollars of revenue. It was almost never an overnight phenomenon.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I’m good at the leadership part. But I’ve always said that I’m a terrible manager. I’m not good at giving feedback.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

I don’t think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn’t be an entrepreneur. My dad became a real estate developer, and that work is usually project-based. You attract investors for a project with a certain life cycle, and then you move on to the next thing. It’s almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

I was pretty entrepreneurial as a kid. I had a lemonade stand. When I was 12, I arbitraged the price of 7-Eleven hot dogs; I’d buy the ones that are pre-wrapped with the bun and then sell them on the beach.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

I was born in a little town called Lund in British Columbia. It’s like a fishing village. My parents were hippies. They tried to live off the land, so I grew up in a log cabin, and we didn’t get running water until I was 4. The next year, we got electricity. Then we moved to the city, Victoria, British Columbia, so I could go to school.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting – those are some of the best parts about being alive.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

The experience of being able to search back over all your team’s communications for, in our case, millions of messages, is super-valuable. But you don’t know what that’s like until you actually have it.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

There was a lot of dialogue between the people who were developing Flickr and their users to get feedback on how they wanted Flickr to develop. That interaction made the initial community very strong, and then that seed was there for new people who joined to make the community experience strong for them, too.

– Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

I think there’s a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that’s music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative – they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

– Stewart Butterfield

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