Person
Stewart Butterfield
Former CEO at Slack. Guest on Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield. Mentioned in 7 episodes of Lenny’s Podcast, including the conversations with Annie Duke and Noah Weiss.
Stewart Butterfield
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Role
Former CEO
Company
SlackFeatured In7
Mentioned In7
- Annie DukeThis will make you a better decision maker
- Noah WeissThe 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product
- Nir EyalStrategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus
- Tamar YehoshuaLessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack
- Kenneth BergerWhy not asking for what you want is holding you back
Works At1
Transcript mentions
I actually have a section of this notebook that I've been keeping things I learned from Stuart over the years.
… Again, I went to Slack because I wanted to work with Stewart Butterfield. I think he is the best product thinker in the Valley.
" (00:50:58): I think what I couldn't be with in that moment was the no's, because I was getting no after no after no after no ...
… So Stewart Butterfield creating a product called Glitch, and Glitch is a massive multiplayer online world-building cooperative game. Releases it, this is in the aughts, and...
… I don't know what it's like now, but when I wrote the book, this was certainly the case that everybody from Stewart Butterfield on down, the CEO on down, believed that to do people's best work, they had to work without distraction. So,…
Person
Stewart Butterfield
Role
Former CEO
Company
SlackFeatured In7
Mentioned In7
- Annie DukeThis will make you a better decision maker
- Noah WeissThe 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product
- Nir EyalStrategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus
- Tamar YehoshuaLessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack
- Kenneth BergerWhy not asking for what you want is holding you back
Works At1
Transcript mentions
I actually have a section of this notebook that I've been keeping things I learned from Stuart over the years.
… Again, I went to Slack because I wanted to work with Stewart Butterfield. I think he is the best product thinker in the Valley.
" (00:50:58): I think what I couldn't be with in that moment was the no's, because I was getting no after no after no after no ...
… So Stewart Butterfield creating a product called Glitch, and Glitch is a massive multiplayer online world-building cooperative game. Releases it, this is in the aughts, and...
… I don't know what it's like now, but when I wrote the book, this was certainly the case that everybody from Stewart Butterfield on down, the CEO on down, believed that to do people's best work, they had to work without distraction. So,…