Slack
web-based instant messaging service
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Videos Mentioning Slack
James Talarico: Here Is How They Designed The System To Keep You Poor!
The Diary Of A CEO
Communication platform, mentioned as a channel where people were excitedly discussing Cometier coffee.
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product
Y Combinator
Mentioned regarding conversion rates on landing pages and retention benchmarks for chat applications.
Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | Lex Fridman Podcast #331
Lex Fridman
Compared to Discord, noting its historical discouragement of public slacks and focus on company-internal communication.
Andrew Chen — Growth Secrets from Uber, Exploring the Metaverse, Startup Investing, and More
Tim Ferriss
A business communication platform, mentioned as a company with growth teams, later in the context of the 'cold start problem' and network effects, and for requiring at least three users for its atomic network.
Hiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann (HtSaS 2014: 11)
Y Combinator
Communication platform used by companies for internal messaging and collaboration.
⚡️ The 2026 Software Factory Infra Stack — Zach Lloyd, Warp.dev
Latent Space
A communication tool used as an entry point for interacting with the software factory, with about 60% of work starting here.
Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #166
Lex Fridman
A communication platform mentioned as an example of repurposed tools used by small, affinity-based groups, and analogous to email in contributing to the hyperactive hive mind.
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
A communication platform, used by Eich as an example of a 'fat client' app based on Electron that Brave users access directly in the browser.
Kevin Kelly Returns (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
A communication platform used to separate internal communication from email inboxes.
The art of influence: The single most important skill left that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain
Lenny's Podcast
A popular business communication platform where Jessica Fain held product leadership roles, including Chief of Staff.
How To Compete With Amazon and Google
Y Combinator
A great product that faces competition from Microsoft Teams, which leverages Microsoft's structural advantage in distribution to win enterprise customers.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School
Y Combinator
A community platform where founders can find early users and is suggested for creating customer groups later on.
Turning Your Users Into Paying Customers
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of successful freemium strategy, encouraging users to upgrade.
YC SUS: Gustaf Alströmer and Eric Migicovsky discuss growth tactics
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of a B2B tool that incorporates virality by allowing collaboration with external employees and integrating with address books.
Work at a Startup Expo 2019
Y Combinator
Referenced as a successful company that achieved a multi-billion dollar valuation, serving as an example of a potential outcome for successful startup employees.
Startup Investor School Day 2 Live Stream
Y Combinator
A communication platform used for questions and communications among attendees of the Startup Investor School.
YC SUS: Aaron Epstein and Eric Migicovsky give website feedback
Y Combinator
A communication platform, used as an example of an app with a well-designed update system that Product Voice could emulate.
Cooking with Reducto’s CEO: Why PDFs Still Break AI — Adit Abraham
Latent Space
A communication platform used within Reducto, mentioned in the context of founder availability and team communication.
Female Founders Conference - New York
Y Combinator
Mentioned as one of the hundreds of best companies that partner with The Muse to tell an authentic story for hiring.
Which Sales Strategy Is Best For Your Startup?
Y Combinator
Used as a prime example of a product that successfully employs a Bottoms-Up sales motion, spreading virally within organizations.
I Ranked Every Productivity Tool From Worst to Best
Ali Abdaal
An instant messaging tool for team communication, ranked S-tier for managers but F-tier for creators due to its potential to distract from personal goals.
Why Is AI Making My Job *Worse*? | Cal Newport
Cal Newport
Mentioned as a communication tool that, like email, can lead to increased busyness and distraction if not managed carefully.
Fireside Chat with Kat Mañalac, Kathryn Minshew, and Alex Cavoulacos
Y Combinator
One of the companies that uses The Muse's platform to hire.
What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team
Latent Space
A communication platform, mentioned as a tool AI agents would access in a banking environment for information discovery.