The Slack DPO - a podcast by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an... enterprise software company? We give the full Acquired treatment to newly-public Slack, one of the most extreme and successful pivots of all-time. From a log cabin in Canada to a never-ending game and back again, Slack’s journey has more twists and turns than a Hobbit’s tale. Tune in for one APLUSS story you don’t want to miss!

 

Links

• Kara Swisher’s Flipcam interview with Glitch: https://www.wsj.com/video/tiny-speck-stewart-butterfield-speaks/C51EAD27-FE8E-46AE-B785-6ECF1A9798B0.html
• Marc Andreessen on “all will still end well...” https://twitter.com/patphelan/status/1142733251691405312
• The Glitch public domain archive: https://www.glitchthegame.com
• Naming Slack: https://twitter.com/stewart/status/780906639301812225?s=21

 

Carve Outs

• Ben: The Expanse on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/The-Expanse-Season-1/dp/B018BZ3SCM
• David: Give to any non-profit on Alma: https://alma.app/blog/1-4-million-reasons-to-love-alma-search 

 

Sponsor

• Thanks to Perkins Coie, Counsel to Great Companies, for sponsoring Acquired Season 4. You can get in touch with Ned Prusse, who you heard at the beginning of this podcast, at https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/professionals/ned-a-prusse.html

 

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