Stewart Butterfield, Founder and CEO of Slack

Published: Nov. 7, 2016, 2 p.m.

In this interview,Stewart Butterfield, Founder and CEO of Slack, discusses World Class IT principle one, People, principle four, IT & Business Partnerships, and principle five, External Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include: The genesis of Slack How Slack was scaled to an enterprise level application What metrics are used to gauge the health of the business External inputs into Slack and the value they add Developers and partners in the Slack ecosystem The Slack Fund and its role in driving innovative ideas Stewart’s mentors and lessons learned from his entrepreneurial ventures How culture can drive productivity How talent management develops in a rapidly growing company