Smash Notes
How Did Cal Henderson Meet The Slack Team
Cal Henderson has been working with the same set of people and co-founders for a few decades now. In 2000s they'd made a video game on the internet, which turned into Flickr and got acquired by Yahoo. A decade later they tried another online game called Glitch, which again did not work, but turned into Slack.
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Slack CTO Cal Henderson
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On this episode
- How Did Cal Henderson Meet The Slack Team
- Why Is Slack So Popular With More Than 10 Million Average Daily Users
- What Were The Key Technical Decisions By Cal Henderson Which Made Slack What It Is Today
- Would Slack Have Been Able To Scale Quickly And Efficiently Without Amazon Cloud Service
- If You Launched Slack Today, What Would You Do Differently
- What Technologies Are You Using At Slack Today
- How Do You Stay Flexible While Paying Millions Of Dollars To A Cloud Service Provider Like Amazon Aws
- Is It Possible To Switch Between Web Services Like Aws And Google Cloud Once You Get To A Massive Scale
- Can Artificial Intelligence Make Slack Better
- Did Slack Cto Cal Henderson Really Break Into Steward Butterfield's Mailing Server
- What Does Cal Henderson Look For When Hiring For Slack
- What Apps Would Cal Henderson Like To See Build On Slack In The Future
- What Is The One Most Important Piece Of Advice To Startups From Cal Henderson