“When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the compa...” — Stewart Butterfield Quote

“When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.”

“A lot of companies lock up for a few weeks once a year for performance reviews. But there's a way to collect feedback in real time from Slack so that by the end of the year, you've already stored up all of this information.”

“I would never think of asking a girl out on the High Street or the disco or at school. But on the ski slope, I would chat to all the girls.”

“Yeah and that's the thing, you can have a 100 different chat shows, they can all look the same and do the same thing, but if you can get in there and set something apart, you win.”

“Growing up in a small town in upstate New York, some of the first real friendships I had were in chat rooms.”