Smash Notes
Why Is Slack So Popular With More Than 10 Million Average Daily Users
Slack is bringing hundreds of different work applications under the same roof, enabling companies to use a unified interface for all their communications and data.
While email was built on a one-to-one model of communication where new information was pushed on you, Slack enabled a one-to-many pull model, where anyone can subscribe to any information of interest.
Information in email is only born once an account is opened, and is as good as destroyed once the email account is closed. Meanwhile, Slack enables information to live on forever, so new team members never start with an empty slate, nor is their knowledge lost with transition.
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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