“The experience of being able to search back over all your team's commu...” — Stewart Butterfield Quote

“The experience of being able to search back over all your team's communications for, in our case, millions of messages, is super-valuable. But you don't know what that's like until you actually have it.”

“Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information.”

“We'd never make Slack an email client, but it's good to support sending emails into it. There's quite a bit of formatting you can do. When I get an email from the outside world that I want to share with team, I cut and paste it into Slack. But really, I should be able to import that email as an object.”

“We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.”

“There must always be a balance between protecting privacy and security. In our country, one of the ways we have struck that balance is by requiring a court order before law enforcement can access certain communications of and data on suspects.”

“I was working in email in the early days in the late '80s, and people weren't using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today.”