Leadership & Management

Stewart Butterfield: Salvaging the Good

On this podcast episode, the cofounder and CEO of Slack reflects on how he came to be at the head of a top workplace communications enterprise.

June 12, 2020

| by Jenna Garden Jenny Luna

Born in a log cabin in British Columbia, Stewart Butterfield studied philosophy in college, taught himself to code, cofounded Flickr, and then cofounded a video game startup that evolved into the workplace communication tool Slack.

Along the way, Butterfield learned a lot about innovating in the face of failure, considering all voices in decision-making, and creating a company culture that “walks the walk” when it comes to diversity. Listen to his conversation with Tylon Garrett, MBA ’20, on this View From The Top podcast episode.

 

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