Slack
web-based instant messaging service
What podcasters actually say about Slack.
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Common Themes
Videos Mentioning Slack
Bali Tour Vlog (vapes, beach clubs & James Smith)
Chris Williamson
A communication platform that the speaker mentions opening on a Saturday, highlighting the struggle with a productivity drug addiction.
Voice AI: Beyond Transcription with Granola, CoLoop & EdgeTier
AssemblyAI
Used by EdgeTier for sending proactive alerts to users.
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Ben Horowitz from a16z on Venture Capital Systems, Network Effects
Stanford Online
Mentioned as a company that was once in dire straits, highlighting the importance of resilient founders like Stu Butterfield who can turn around struggling businesses.
AI Dev 26 x SF | A Fireside Chat with OpenAI's Marc Manara
DeepLearningAI
A communication platform that Codeex can be used to navigate, as part of its broader knowledge work capabilities.
AI Dev 26 x SF | Amrita Venkatraman: 3rd Era of Software Development
DeepLearningAI
A communication platform that integrates with Cursor, allowing users to interact with agents and trigger workflows.
AI Dev 26 x SF | Diamond Bishop: The Next 100 Agents. Building the Agent Native Office
DeepLearningAI
A communication platform where the speaker interacts with coworkers, compared to agent communication.
AI Dev 26 x SF | João Moura: Building Recurring, Governed, and Embedded Enterprise Workflows
DeepLearningAI
A messaging platform used internally at CrewAI, where the speaker announced the Iris project and where team members initially tried to break it.
AI Dev 26 x SF | Daniel Beutel: Flower SuperGrid Agents
DeepLearningAI
A communication platform where Flower has a public community with over 7,000 members.
Inside YC's AI Playbook
Y Combinator
A communication platform used internally at YC to broadcast agent conversations and enable learning.
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
Latent Space
A communication platform where agents can be integrated for various use cases, including customer support and prompting for code changes.
Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup
Y Combinator
A communication platform used by GigaML's AI forward deployed engineer to gather information and make changes.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
All-In Podcast
A communication platform, mentioned as an example of a PLG (Product Led Growth) market motion where individual developers sign up before enterprise licenses.
Every Level of Marketing ($0, $10k, $100k, $1m, $10m)
Grant Owen
A software integrated with Salesforce, mentioned in the context of Mr. Beast's sponsorship deals. While Shopify was an intentional sponsorship, Salesforce and Slack were a later, perhaps less strategic, fit.
Why AI Agents Need Context | Deep Dives with a16z
a16z Deep Dives
Mentioned as a SAS tool where Salesforce has historically been good with data access, except for Slack, where they are 'terrible'. Also mentioned as a platform where AI agents might join teams.
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
Latent Space
Used by GitHub for chat operations and integrated with commands and workflows, despite the Microsoft acquisition.
Ex-Amazon VP: Do This at Work to Get Promoted Fast | Ethan Evans
BigDeal by Codie Sanchez
A communication platform suggested for sending weekly status reports to make work visible in a corporate environment.
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
Latent Space
Used as the primary communication and logging platform for Project Vend, allowing multi-agent interaction and trace analysis.
EMERGENCY DEBATE: The Death Of The Middle Class! The Pitch Forks Are Coming!
The Diary Of A CEO
A communication platform where the host posts a message using Whisper Flow's speech-to-text feature.
The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)
Lenny's Podcast
A communication platform cited as an example of a successful product that might have been purely 'proven' and 'better' with no 'new' elements, illustrating that innovation doesn't always require complete novelty.
Building the most AI-pilled engineering team in the world | Fiona Fung (Anthropic)
Lenny's Podcast
A communication platform used by Anthropic teams, with integration to Claude Code for feedback channels and project visibility, enabling daily routines for managers.
The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
Latent Space
A messaging platform integrated with Nano Claw for agent communication and approvals, considered an S-tier messaging app by the speaker.
The investing hack hiding in your own company
My First Million
The platform where Anthropic launched Claude Tag, chosen because users are already present and it offers necessary permission boundaries for collaborative AI agents.