Quotes by Stewart Butterfield

There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesnt when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency.

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

I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I dont just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.

Its very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, its a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but its also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.

I dont think it ever occurred to me that I wouldnt 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. Its almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example.