Chief Executive Officer | episode 472
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on COVID and Microsoft Teams
Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder and CEO of Slack, the workplace messaging platform that rose to a private valuation of $7B before going public in June of 2019. The company has experienced a surge of demand due to the shift to remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to co-founding Slack, Stewart co-founded Flickr, one of the pioneers of image sharing and the social web. July 30, 2020In this interview, we discuss
- COVID’s impact on enterprise
- How COVID has impacted the amount of Slack users positively and negatively
- The potential challenges a hybrid model of working will present.
- How people are more attracted to new features versus core improvement to the existing features
- The main difference between Slack and Microsoft Teams and how they can be used together
- How the demand for synchronous communication can be disruptive to people’s time management and their ability to focus
Among a variety of other topics.
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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.
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I definitely have the impression that we're much more productive right now [working remotely due to COVID].The World Class IT principles in yellow were the focus of this interview
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