Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield
Daniel Stewart Butterfieldis a Canadian entrepreneur and businessman, best known for being a co-founder of the photo sharing website Flickr and team messaging application Slack...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryCanada
ended good job
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.
worked
The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.
maybe people
People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.
acquired add early facebook people photo till
People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.
channels create discuss manage relatively
In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.
rarely
I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.
against figure found hippie
I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.
people
All the people on the Flickr team are committed to what we're doing, which is to be the eyes of the world.
dozens teams using
A company like Adobe, there are dozens of different teams that are using Slack. Each of those elected to use Slack independently.
choose home love
I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.
bosses hard love people tend
I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.
best flirting moments music parts playing
Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting - those are some of the best parts about being alive.
bad default develop habits hoarding information means mode people power preserving using work wrong
There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.
art creative deep humans impulse life music painter people point whether
I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.