Best quotes by Stewart Butterfield on Time

Checkout quotes by Stewart Butterfield on Time

  • I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.
    - Stewart Butterfield
  • Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.
    - Stewart Butterfield
  • The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era or the 1920s or the '50s or the '70s, it used to take a long time for a company to get to the point where they had tens of millions of dollars of revenue. It was almost never an overnight phenomenon.
    - Stewart Butterfield
  • For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
    - Stewart Butterfield
  • If your job requires that you spend a lot of time communicating with people across organizational boundaries, email is perfect. Email is the lowest common denominator, and it's going to cross organizational boundaries really well.
    - Stewart Butterfield