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What Were the Key Technical Decisions by Cal Henderson Which Made Slack What It Is Today
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It could be very addicting to dive deep into a technology and build something for massive scale, only to never see it come true. When starting Slack, the team was unconstrained by what the technology would become, instead they focused on finding the product market fit. The job was to build something that worked and to iterate fast.
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