Stewart Butterfield
Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder of Flickr and Slack
Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder of Flickr and Slack
Every podcast episode featuring Stewart Butterfield that Attunex has found: 58 interviews and appearances across 45 shows between 2015 and 2025. Most often on Squawk Pod (4), Blazing Trails (3) and How I Built This with Guy Raz (3). Often in conversation with Kara Swisher, Becky Quick and Guy Raz. Follow Stewart in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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This is a podcast analyzing key pivots from the perspective of the clinical paradigm and Kahnemann´ s intuitive and rational thinking. PIVOT: The story of Stewart Butterfield and Slack is defined by…
The episode follows Stewart Butterfield and Tiny Speck as they pivoted from an unflavored MMO to Slack, showing how a simple internal chat tool became a dominant communication platform. It dissects…
Năm 2012, Stewart Butterfield đứng trước một quyết định nghiệt ngã: đóng cửa Glitch, dự án trò chơi trực tuyến mà ông và đội ngũ đã đổ vào đó hơn 3 năm công sức cùng hàng triệu USD. Trong mắt giới…
A gente conhece as histórias de quem venceu. Mas quase nunca conhece quem tentou a mesma coisa e fracassou. Neste episódio, Marcus Nunes fala sobre o viés de sobrevivência, a história dos aviões que…
一个失败的游戏，如何变成了277亿美元的企业通信巨头？ 💬 本期导读 你可能用过Slack，也可能没用过，但你应该听说过——那个让无数团队告别邮件、被77%的《财富》100强公司使用的“工作操作系统”。2020年，Salesforce花了277亿美元买下它。 但Slack差一点就不存在了。…
Stewart Butterfield’s Slack Blueprint
Why You Need a Side Quest (and How It Can Change Your Life) The hosts discuss the growing idea of “side quests” as intentional challenges outside one’s main job that add joy, purpose, and personal…
March 4, 2026: The ECB just released new data showing companies that use AI are hiring, not firing — but the full story of what happened to bank tellers reveals why that optimism has a shelf life.…
When Slack launched in 2013, workplace communication was dominated by email, which had been the standard for decades despite widespread complaints about information overload, poor searchability, and…
Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder of Slack and Flickr, two of the most influential products in internet history. After selling Slack to Salesforce in one of tech's biggest acquisitions, he's been…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：硅谷顶尖创投播客《Lenny's Podcast》 本期我们荣幸邀请到产品和创业界的传奇人物——Stewart…
Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder of Slack and Flickr, two of the most influential products in internet history. After selling Slack to Salesforce in one of tech’s biggest acquisitions, he’s been…
Stewart Butterfield breaks down how to build products people love with actionable mental models for product design and user experience. Condensed from 2 hours to 5 minutes, this summary delivers the…
Este es el último episodio de la primera temporada de Dconstruir, y es diferente a todos los anteriores: no hay invitado. Solo yo, abriéndome sobre lo que realmente significa pivotar cuando…
A Dublin Office Halloween: Slack's Journey with Stewart Butterfield Slack's had its Dublin office, the first outside the Pacific Time zone. Now Slack CEO, Stewart Butterfield, came calling. Also:…
Stewart Butterfield je zakladatel Slacku a spoluzakladatel Flickru – dvou projektů, které změnily způsob, jakým komunikujeme a sdílíme. Jeho cesta ale rozhodně nebyla přímá. Dvakrát se pokusil…
If you’re a premium subscriber Add the private feed to your podcast app at add.lennysreads.com In this episode, you’ll learn: * Why product sense isn’t magic: it’s a muscle you can train * How to…
Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman, the world's leading API collaboration platform used by millions of developers and thousands of companies. What began as a personal itch, a simple…
How Slack Built Its Culture: Part Two - Eating the Goat This episode, 'Eating the Goat,' explores how Slack recognized and addressed rapid hiring issues and built a strong organizational culture.…
Inside Slack: Defining Culture with Four Attributes In this episode, James Sherrett shares how Slack began to define its company culture by establishing Four Slack Attributes. Learn about the…
Slack, now a cornerstone of modern workplace communication, began as an unexpected solution born from failure. Originally developed by Stewart Butterfield’s team during the development of the…
A Foundational Slack Story: Craftsmanship and Culture In this episode, James Sherrett recounts a defining story shared by Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Slack, about learning the importance of…
Crafting Slack's Go-to-Market Strategy: Overcoming the 'Suck Hump' Computer says: This episode, based on James Sherrett's recount of Slack's journey, illustrates the challenges and strategies…
On this episode of Coder Caffeine, Maker Mantras Edition, we are guided by a powerful quote from Stewart Butterfield, the Co-Founder of Slack, and practice a powerful mantra that reminds us that…
New to A Slack Story? Check out: Introduction: what if the startup myth comes true . Thanks for reading A Slack Story! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. On a bright spring…
On this episode of Coder Caffeine, Origin Hacks Edition, we unlock the growth hacks and secret sauce that the Slacks Founders, Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov…
I’m talking with my good friend David Pierce, Vergecast co-host and The Verge’s editor-at-large, about something he spends an ungodly amount of time thinking and writing about: software. Scores of…
Stewart Butterfield - El Visionario Detrás de Slack y Flickr Stewart Butterfield es un empresario y desarrollador canadiense conocido por ser el cofundador de Flickr y Slack, dos plataformas que…
On this episode of Coder Caffeine we chit chat about iced coffee and tasty cinnamon buns from Lund, British Columbia, decode an insightful quote from Stewart Butterfield, and provide a quick mental…
At its core, Slack is a chat app. Every day, millions of people use it to communicate, share files, and gossip with coworkers or friend groups in one organized place. That style of free-flowing…
"Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away" by Annie Duke is a Kindle edition book with a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 736 ratings. Annie Duke, the bestselling author of "Thinking in…
If you are a business owner or entrepreneur, this episode is for you! When you make a product or offer a service in business, there will always be a by-product of that business. In today's episode,…
In 1991, I traveled to Alaska with three friends to get rich. Why? We had learned that we could make $5,000–$7,000 a month working in Alaska over the Summer. I thought I would leave Alaska having…
Stewart Butterfield has been at the forefront of two epochal turning points for tech. First, he was the co-founder of the photo sharing site Flickr, that was one of the defining brands of the…
Stuart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack, has just begun his parental leave, and is also stepping back from his role leading the company he cofounded in 2009. Host Christine Lagorio-Chafkin asked him to…
Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder and CEO of Slack is on the cusp of 50, and on the brink of stepping down as chief executive of the extremely popular communications-for-teams software company he…
J+M start the show with some BREAKING NEWS: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce! (5:09) Then, they cover Circle canceling its SPAC (26:06), SBF's interactions with regulators and the…
Flickr hatte er bereits 2005 an Yahoo verkauft – für 35 Millionen US-Dollar. Im Juli 2021 folgte dann sein zweiter Exit – Slack ging für 27,7 Milliarden an Salesforce. Im OMR Podcast erzählt…
Subscribe & watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EtsZ36eaBPc Timestamps: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:37) - Start Of Interview (00:01:30) - Annie Duke's Background In Poker (00:03:49) - Growing Up…
Our Dreamforce coverage continues. Today we’ll hear Pivot, the award-winning podcast by Vox Media come to life with co-host Kara Swisher and Stewart Butterfield, President & CEO of Slack. Stewart…
Stewart Butterfield, Slack's co-founder and CEO, shares how leaders can navigate uncertainty while helping to make their teams more effective. He shares mindsets that can drive leaders to rethink…
Americans are gearing up to travel this Fourth of July weekend despite higher fuel and food costs this year. Amid record-high inflation, president and CEO of Best Western Hotels and Resorts Larry…
"The fundamental challenge of leadership is that of being a human being: living with an open heart and not seeing other people as instruments that can be used to your advantage or as obstacles in the…
Slack Co-Founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield on the complexities of bringing employees back to the office, the importance of flexibility, and what the workforce of the future looks like, at Slack and…
Today, we'll learn about the #1 skill a founder or a freelancer needs. Resiliency! And we're going to learn about it through the lens of Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Slack. Today, of course,…
As the specter of omicron looms large over the festive season, governments around the world are desperately trying to deploy Covid-19 booster shots in order to bolster people’s protection against the…
Slack, known for its multi-channel communication product, experienced astounding growth in the past year. Miriam McLemore sat down with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield to discuss how a shared purpose…
As employers continue to navigate the changing landscape of work, many are faced with a myriad of difficult decisions. Should employees return regularly, irregularly, or at all? What digital tools…
My guest today is Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack. Stewart’s 2014 essay “Why We Don’t Sell Saddles Here” had a massive impact on my own business journey, which made this discussion…
We kick off this morning previewing ride-hailing giant Didi’s upcoming market debut today amid an IPO rush of at least 17 companies going public. Big Ideas Ventures Managing Partner and Early Didi…
We’ve got a new show and we’re in the swing of things. Today on the show, CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla, Jon Fortt and Deirdre Bosa take a deep dive into the long-awaited Coinbase IPO and talk the future…
We’ve got a new show and we’re in the swing of things. Today on the show, CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla, Jon Fortt and Deirdre Bosa take a deep dive into the long-awaited Coinbase IPO and talk the future…
Lots of Slack news Slack now lets you DM anyone Slack is starting to roll out a new feature that lets anyone using the service DM each other. Announced back in October, Slack Connect DMs will let…
“I cannot f*cking do eight hours of zoom calls per day for the rest of my life” says Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. On this episode of PressClub, top employers and work from home experts explore how…
In a matter of months, everything we knew about working and operating a business was flipped on its head. And with that almost overnight transformation have come new challenges for employees and…
Salesforce's much-buzzed-about deal to acquire Slack for $28 billion goes back a decade, when Friendfeed founder Bret Taylor met Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield. Now Taylor is Salesforce's…
Salesforce's much-buzzed-about deal to acquire Slack for $28 billion goes back a decade, when Friendfeed founder Bret Taylor met Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield. Now Taylor is Salesforce's…
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield and Box CEO Aaron Levie join The Post for a deep dive into the expanding world of cloud computing for the new workforce and the new normal.
Welcome to TechCrunch daily news, a round up of the top tech news of the day. --We learn more about Slack’s future --Revolut adds new payment features --and DoorDash pushes its IPO range upward. This…
Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal As predicted last week, the Customer Relations Software giant Salesforce has acquired Slack, the workplace communications tool. (A$37.5 billion)This follows…
Stewart Butterfield is the Founder & CEO @ Slack, the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems and drive their businesses forward. Prior to…
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community. The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of…
The Dow jumped 466 points to kick off the week and Jim Cramer is breaking down today's top news stories and how the market reacted. Then, after the announcement of their acquisition of biotech…
Evan and Dave chat with Stewart Bufferfield, the co-Founder of Slack. Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive…
Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about tech and how it's shaping the world around us. This week we talk about: Facebook API takes down half the iOS apps , Tech leaders go to Congress , Slack acquires…
You’ve taken your product to market, and the response is overwhelming. It’s an overnight success — and more people are interacting with your business than you could have ever imagined. What does…
The tech giant tells developers future Macs will use Apple-designed chips as found in the iPad and iPhone. Plus, as shops reopen after lockdowns, how can tech make physical shopping safer and more…
Three leading tech CEO’s convened to discuss “The Future of Work,” a conversation recorded live as part of the NYSE’s inaugural Digital Leaders Series. Stewart Butterfield, Jennifer Tejada, and Aaron…
Born in a log cabin in British Columbia, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield studied Philosophy in college, taught himself to code, co-founded Flickr, and then co-founded a videogame startup that evolved…
Nhà đồng sáng lập Slack và Flickr chia sẻ những bài học từ khởi nghiệp và cuộc sống. Dharma Jeremy Butterfield sinh ra ở Lund, British Columbia, nơi đường cao tốc bờ biển Thái Bình Dương kết thúc.…
These are unique times. In some ways, we can use our playbooks, make adjustments, and in other ways, things are very different. What isn't likely to be very different is that recurring revenue ……
Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield about remote working, competition with Microsoft, and the way technology changes how we communicate. Learn more about your ad…
Slack's co-founder Stewart Butterfield wonders what the future of work will look like for his 12 million customers. Springfree Trampoline's co-founder Steve Holmes says the company has seen a 300…
News, views and reviews from the world of business. Heather Noble & Tracy Jones present The Business Community on Calon FM, Episode 111. Find out more about this show, the presenters, Calon FM and…
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how coronavirus changed everything for Slack and its customers, the sudden transition to "work from home" across the country, and…
Our sixth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr and Slack. Both companies emerged out of failure. In this live conversation with Guy,…
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, the first in our series on the new class of companies that went public in 2019. Butterfield shares his thoughts on the popularity of direct listings and Slack’s role in…
Welcome back to series 4 - what a season have we got lined up for you! Kicking us off is Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of one of this decade’s most famous tech companies - the team communications…
Slack is a workplace messaging platform that allows users to communicate with co-workers across the country, share files instantaneously and react to news about free doughnuts with the perfect GIF.…
In your company’s darkest moment, remember: You CAN pivot from failure to success. But only if you slash and burn everything that isn’t working. Slack’s co-founder and CEO, Stewart Butterfield, has…
Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. How to block people’s posts on Facebook without actually unfriending them. And we meet the Canadian entrepreneur best…
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) A lot in technology -- and venture -- happens in decades. New cycles of technology come and go, including…
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an... enterprise software company? We give the full Acquired treatment to newly-public Slack, one of the most extreme and successful pivots of all-time. From a log…
Mandeep Singh, Senior Tech Industry Analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, on Slack going public in a direct listing, and Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield and CFO Allen Shim speak from the NYSE with Emily…
Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. What to do if you really want to secure your Facebook account from hackers. And meet the man behind Flickr and Slack.…
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based Slack tells John Thornhill how his fascination for technology that facilitates human interaction came about. Hosted on…
The Renaissance scholars couldn’t keep up with new information (“Have you read the latest Erasmus book?” “I don’t have time!”) and needed a better way to organize it. Thus came the invention of…
It's hard to talk about Stewart Butterfield without getting into his unorthodox path to the heights of tech. The Canadian entrepreneur spent his early childhood without electricity, taught himself to…
Emily Chang sits down with Slack CEO & co-founder Stewart Butterfield to discuss his nontraditional upbringing, how past start-up failures lead to the success of Flickr and Slack and his thoughts on…
Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Slack, a collaboration hub beloved by more than eight million daily active users. In this episode, Spencer joins Stewart at…
In the early 2000s, Stewart Butterfield tried to build a weird, massively multiplayer online game, but the venture failed. Instead, he and his co-founders used the technology they developed to create…
In this episode, Stewart tells Slack’s origin story and the hard decisions it took to get there, elaborating on when to follow your dreams and when to "stop banging your head into the ground until…
"90% of my job is to make sure that the organization is performing at the highest possible level." New work is definitely about the people. It's ‘people before paper’. But if you were to ask someone…
iPhone X Responsible for 35% of Total Worldwide Phone Profits in Q4 2017. http://bit.ly/qlearly411 Salesforce has spent $6 million on pay raises for women. http://bit.ly/qlearly412 Spotify begins…
In your company’s darkest moment, remember: You CAN pivot from failure to success. But only if you slash and burn everything that isn’t working. Slack’s co-founder and CEO, Stewart Butterfield, has…
The Ezra Klein Show: Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and more by Best Of Tech & Startups
If you came by the Vox office, you would find it oddly quiet. That's not because we don't like each other, or because we're not social, or because we don't have anything to say. It's because almost…
For as long as there has been software we have had this collective hope -- maybe more of a desire -- that software will make all kinds of work easier, more productive, and more creative.…
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Slack and Flickr, shares lessons from his entrepreneurial journey from philosophy student to creator of hugely popular platforms for sharing and communicating, and…
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Slack and Flickr, shares lessons from his entrepreneurial journey from philosophy student to creator of hugely popular platforms for sharing and communicating, and…
Kara Swisher interviews Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Lauren Goode talks about Apple Music and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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